 | Henry Charles Beeching - 1926 - 220 Seiten
...fire though ye blow. ANOTHER WASSAIL the trees, that they may bear You many a plum and many a pear ; For more or less fruits they will bring, As you do give them wassailing. ROBERT HERRICK io<J. THE WASSAIL GIVE way, give way, ye gates, and win An easy blessing to your bin... | |
 | 1927 - 464 Seiten
...occurred on Twelfthnight eve, or "Wassail Eve,"' and continued until the end of the 18th century. "Wassail the trees, that they may beare You many a plum, and many a peare; For more or lesse fruits they will bring, As you do give them wassailing." The dregs of the wassail bowl were thrown... | |
 | Dominic Bevan Wyndham Lewis - 1928 - 354 Seiten
...of nightly fear, To watch it. WASSAIL the trees, that they may bear You many a plum and many a pear: For more or less fruits they will bring, As you do give them wassailing. ROBERT HERRICK (1591-1674). THE SAILOR'S CAROL 3E No-el! Nocll No-a I Noel? \CuhoUc Olcl Tuvc toctU:... | |
 | Iowa State Horticultural Society - 1906 - 552 Seiten
...sticks, and that is called "wassailing" the trees, — probably a relic of the pagan sacrifice to Pomona. "Wassaile the trees that they may beare You many a plum and many a pear; For more or less fruits they will bring As you so give them wassailing." PEACH GROWING IN SOUTHEASTERN... | |
 | Leah S. Marcus - 1989 - 340 Seiten
...achieving its effects. Trees bear fruit in direct proportion to the amount of wassailing they are given: WASSAILE the Trees, that they may beare You many a Plum, and many a Peare: For more or lesse fruits they will bring, As you doe give them Wassailing. ("Another," Herrick, 264) Drinking and... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1992 - 260 Seiten
...trees, and is thought by some to be "a relic of the heathen sacrifice to Pomona." Herrick sings, — "Wassaile the trees that they may beare You many a...peare For more or less fruits they will bring As you so give them wassailing." Our poets have as yet a better right to sing of cider than of wine; but it... | |
 | Frank Browning - 1999 - 258 Seiten
...specifically in mind is a bit doubtful. A century earlier, in 1648, the poet Robert Herrick advised: Wassaile the Trees, that they may beare You many a Plum, and many a Peare Later that century the naturalist and antiquarian writer John Aubrey described how in Somerset "the... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 2001 - 436 Seiten
...the trees and is thought by some to be "a relic of the heathen sacrifice to Pomona." Herrick sings, Wassaile the trees that they may beare You many a...peare; For more or less fruits they will bring As you so give them wassailing. Our poets have as yet a better right to sing of cider than of wine, but it... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 2002 - 280 Seiten
...trees, and is thought by some to be "a relic of the heathen sacrifice to Pomona." Herrick sings, — "Wassaile the trees that they may beare You many a...peare; For more or less fruits they will bring As you so give them wassailing." Our poets have as yet a better right to sing of cider than of wine; but it... | |
 | Cora Linn Daniels, C. M. Stevans - 2003 - 592 Seiten
...trees should bear more fruit. "Wassail the trees that they may bear You many a plum and many a pear; For more or less fruits they will bring As you do give them wassailing." (ST.) ETIENNE'S DAY— It is unlucky to eat cabbages on St. Etienne's day, because he once concealed... | |
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Wassaile the trees that they may beare You many a plum and many a peare; For more or less fruits they will bring As you so give them wassailing. 
