 Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd shade...  The British Poets - Page 1321866Full view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...other country messes, And then in haste her bower she leaves, With Thestylis to bind the sheaves ; Or, if the earlier season lead, To the tann'd haycock...sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the checker'd shade ; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holyday, Till the livelong daylight... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 352 pages
...joyous movement of the ensuing verses is a particularly happy instance of representative harmony. Let the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks...sound, To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade. There is a watery music in the following lines. Fountains ! and ye that warble as... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 376 pages
...joyous movement of the ensuing verses is a particularly happy instance of representative harmony. Let the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks...sound, To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade. There is a watery music in the following lines. Fountains ! and ye that warble as... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 pages
...joyous movement of the ensuing verses is a particularly happy instance of representative harmony. Let the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks...sound, To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade. There is a watery music in the following lines. Fountains ! and ye that warble as... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...Thestylis to bind the sheaves ; Or, if the earlier season lead, To the tann'd haycock in the mead. MILTON. is holy hill Him have anointed, whom ye now behold...have sworn, to him shall bow All knees in Heaven, Tilt the livelong day-light fail : Then to the spicy nut-brown ale, With stories told of many a feat,... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...neat-handed Phillis dresses And then in haste her bower she leaves, With Thestylis to bind the sheaves ; Or, if the earlier season lead, To the tann'd haycock...sound To many a youth and many a maid Dancing in the checker'd shade ; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holyday, Till the live-long daylight... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...neat-handed Phillis dresses ; And then in haste her bower she leaves, With Thestylis to bind the sheaves ; Or, if the earlier season lead, To the tann'd haycock...shade ; And young and old come forth to play On a sun- shine holiday, Till the Jive-long day-light fail : Then to the spicy nut-brown ale, With stories... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...neat-handed Phillis dresses ; And then in haste her bower she leaves, With Thestylis to bind the sheaves ; den residence : How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty vaulted 335 FROM 1649 TO 16Г.Ц. To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chcquer'd «hade ; And young... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - English literature - 1844 - 522 pages
...ever-during gates, harmonious sound, " On golden hinges turning." And again, — " When the merry belle ring round, " And the jocund rebecks sound, " To many a youth, and many a maid ",Dancing in the chcquer'd shade." " Fountains, and ye that warble as ye flow " Melodious murmure, warbling, tune his... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 280 pages
...neat-handed Phillis dresses ; And then in haste her bower she leaves With Thestylis to bind the sheaves; Or, if the earlier season lead, To the tann'd haycock...the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many & maid, Dancing in the chequer'd shade. ; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holy-day,... | |
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