 | 1850 - 638 str.
...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 ; Everything did banish moan, Save the nightingale alone. She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Leaned her... | |
 | John Lavicount Anderdon - 1845 - 254 str.
...a day, In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade, Which a grove of myrtles made; Lambs did leap, and birds did sing ; Trees did grow, and...Lean'd her breast up-till a thorn ; And there sung the dolcfull'st ditty, That to hear it was great pity. Fie — fie — fie — now would she cry, Teru,... | |
 | 1846 - 590 str.
...winds breathe sweet, unruly tho' they be. IN the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made, Beasts did leap and birds...and plants did spring : Every thing did banish moan. SHAKSPERE. BARNEFIELD. (1598.) Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 str.
...myrtles made ; Beasts did leap, and birds did sine, Trees did grow, and plants did spring ; Everything did banish moan, Save the nightingale alone. She,...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, now would she cry ; Teru, teru, by... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 str.
...the Nightingale,] As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made ; Beasts did leap, and birds did sing, Trees did grow, and plants did spring ; Everything did banish moan, Save the nightingale alone. She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Lean'd her... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1850 - 484 str.
...love.1 XIX. As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove2 of myrtles made, Beasts did leap, and birds did sing,...Every thing did banish moan Save the nightingale alone : 1 We insert this poem in the order in which it appears in The Passionate Pilgrim. The variations... | |
 | 1921 - 1154 str.
...breast against a thorn," he was, of course borrowing from Richard Barnefield's ' Ode ': Everything did banish moan Save the nightingale alone. .She, poor bird, as all forlorn Lean'd her breast against a thorn, And there sang the dolefullest ditty, That to hear it was great pity. Whence did Barnefield... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 str.
...THE NIGHTINGALE. As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made ; Beasts did leap and birds...Lean'd her breast up-till a thorn; And there sung the dolefull'st ditty, That to hear it was great pity. Fie, fle, fle, now would she cry ; Teru, tern, by... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 str.
...THE NIGHTINGALE. As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made ; Beasts did leap and birds...Lean'd her breast up-till a thorn; And there sung the dolefull'st ditty, That to hear it was great pity. Fie, fle, fle, now would she cry ; Tern, tern, by... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 458 str.
...XIX. As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove 2 of myrtles made, Beasts did leap, and birds did sing,...Every thing did banish moan Save the nightingale alone : 1 We insert this poem in the order in which it appears in The Passionate Pilgrim. The variations... | |
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Every thing 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 : 
