...inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Wood«, and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and daíe very strange. But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and, at first, it Sonnet on h is oim Blindnca. When 1 consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world...

...stable Brigbt-hamctis'd angels sit in order serviceable. On May ¡forning. Now the bright rooming star, eye«, To twinkle in their Sonnet on hit own Blindnest. When I consider how my light is spent Kre half my days, in this dark world...

...RICHMOND BY THE RIVEE THAMES. Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the cast, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green...thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish theo long.—MILTON. me," said Sterne, " a companion of my way, were it only to inform me how the shadows...

...yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May ! that dost inspire Mirth and youth, and fond desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill...early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long." Stow, in his Survay of London, 1603, pp. 98-9, quotes from Hall an account of Henry the VIII. 's riding...

...primrose. Hail ' bounteous May, that dost inspire Alirth, and youth, and warm desire 1 Woods and proves are of thy dressing — Hill and dale doth boast thy...our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long !" THE shadows of night arc now fast retiring, to give place to the reviving radiance of the sun, —...

...leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale...Character, Active Superhuman Beauty, with the finest coloring and contrast ; Painter, the. same. During the while that Guyon did abide In Mammon's house,...

...the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flow'ry May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip,...early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long. MILTON. POEMS OF IMAGINATION AND FANCY I. HYMN TO THE NIGHT. " NIGHT appears, and anxiety and wretchedness...

...the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her The flow'ry May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip...early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long. HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus2 and blackest Midnight born, 1 The cheerful man. 3 The fabulous...

...open fa ire ; And Phoebus fresh as bridgroome to his male, Came dancing forth, shaking his dewy hair.' Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale...early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long. i0 AN EPITAPH ON THE ADMIRABLE DRAMATIC POET W. SHAKESPEARE.* WHAT needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd...

...inspire Mirth and youth and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing,* ' Hill and dale can boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee and wish thee long. The wild and desolate stanzas, supposed to be suggested by an equally wild and desolate landscape in...