 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 600 pages
...titles of "The milk-maid's song," and " The Milk-maid's Mother's answer." XXI. As it fell upon a day9 In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade,...birds did sing, Trees did grow and plants did spring ; Every thing did banish moan, Save the nightingale alone : She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Lean'd... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 596 pages
...edit. 1808) under the titles of "The milk-maid's song," and " The Milk-maid's Mother's answer." XXI. As it fell upon a day* In the merry month of May,...in a pleasant shade, Which a grove of myrtles made 1, Beasts did leap and birds did sing, Trees did grow and plants did spring ; Every thing did banish... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1843 - 606 pages
...1808) under the titles of "The milkmaid's song," and " The Milk-maid's Mother's answer." I . XXI. . -" As it fell upon a day ' In the merry month of May,...Sitting in a pleasant shade, Which a grove of myrtles madei, Beasts did leap and birds did sing, Trees did grow and plants did spring ; Every thing did banish... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 532 pages
...shepherd's tongue , These pretty pleasures might me move , To live with thee and be thy love. XXI. As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting...birds did sing , Trees did grow and plants did spring; Every thing did banish moan , Save the nightingale alone : Shee , poor bird , as all forlorn , Lean'd... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...stab at thee who will, No stab the soul can kill. [Addrtat to the NigMngok.'} As it fell upon a dny, venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head...life, exempt from public haunt. Finds tongues in tre sinjj, Trees did grow, and plants did spring ; Everything did banish moan, Pave the nightingale alone.... | |
 | American periodicals - 1850 - 638 pages
...a bird of melancholy associations, or of lugubrious note, as it is in the lines which follow : — As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade, By a group of myrtles made ; Beasts did leap and birds did sing ; Trees did grow, and plants did spring... | |
 | American periodicals - 1894 - 856 pages
...Aaron, let us sit. Now compare this with the Passionate Pilgrim's Sitting in a pleasant shade . . . and birds did sing, Trees did grow and plants did spring, Everything did banish moan. But Aaron replies in another vein, " Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand." Why ? Hark, Tamora,... | |
 | John Lavicount Anderdon - Dove, River (Derbyshire and Staffordshire, England) - 1845 - 254 pages
...sweet sonnet from the Passionate Pilgrim, composed by the greatest bard of the last or any other age. As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May,...in a pleasant shade, Which a grove of myrtles made; Lambs did leap, and birds did sing ; Trees did grow, and plants did spring. Every thing did banish... | |
 | English fiction - 1846 - 590 pages
...town, Such a storm As oft twixt May and April is to see, When winds breathe sweet, unruly tho' they be. IN the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade...birds did sing, Trees did grow and plants did spring : Every thing did banish moan. SHAKSPERE. BARNEFIELD. (1598.) Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...than stabbing ; Yet stab at thee who will, No stab the soul can kill. [Addra» to the Nightingale.] eis«! and unbreathed, that never sallies out and...the race where that immortal garland is to be run fo sine, Trees did grow, and plants did spring ; Everything did banish moan, Save the nightingale alone.... | |
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Everything did banish moan, Save the nightingale alone: She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Lean'd her breast up-till a thorn, And there sung the dolefull'st ditty, That to hear it was great pity. 'Fie, fie, fie... 
