 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phyllis dresses ; And then in haste her bower6 she leaves, With Thestylis to bind the sheaves ; Or,...invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks7 sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing8 in the chequered shade ; 1 Tells his tale—... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 280 pages
...bower she leaves With Thestylis to bind the sheaves; Or, if the earlier season lead, To the tann'd haycock in the mead. Sometimes, with secure delight,...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,... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...cottage chimney smokes, From betwixt two aged oaks, Where Corydon and Thyrsis, met, Are at their savory dinner set, Of herbs, and other country messes, Which...sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the checkered shade ; And young and old come forth to play, On a sunshine holiday, Till the livelong daylight... | |
 | Gem book - 1846 - 398 pages
...bower she leaves, With Thestylis to bind the sheaves ; Or, if the earlier season lead, To the tann'd haycock in the mead. Sometimes, with secure delight,...sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd shade ; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday, Till the livelong daylight... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 402 pages
...bower she leaves With Thestylis to bind the sheaves ; Or, if the earlier season lead, To the tann'd haycock in the mead. Sometimes, with secure delight,...sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd shade ; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holy-day, Till the live-long day-light... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...bower she leaves, With Thcstylis to bind the sheaves ; Or, if the earlier season lead, To the tann'd e understanding beholders) it now faints and groaneth. chequer'd shade ; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday, Till the livelong daylight... | |
 | Thomas Miller - 1847 - 388 pages
..." Before the swallow dares, And takes the wings of March with beauty." SHAKSFERR. GREENWICH PARK. " When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks...And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday." MILTON'S " L'AT,LKGHO." HERE we are at liberty to walk over hill and valley, under the shadows... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 154 pages
...Thestylis to bind the sheaves; Or, if the earlier season lead, Ta the tann'd haycock in the mead. 1 Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will...sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd shade; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holy-day, Till the live-long daylight... | |
 | 1876 - 396 pages
...picture reminds us of certain lines in one of Milton's most beautiful poems, which run thus : — " Sometimes with secure delight, The upland hamlets...youth and many a maid Dancing in the chequered shade." Now, how many of our young friends know : the meaning of the word " rebecks " in the fourth line ?... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...from Virtion much more appropriate to gil's 2nd and 7th Eclogues. the occasion than tells his story. Or if the earlier season lead To the tanned haycock...sound To many a youth and many a maid Dancing in the checkered shade ; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holyday, Till the live-long daylight... | |
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Which the 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 tanned haycock in the mead. Sometimes, with secure delight, The upland hamlets will invite, When the... 
