"Maying" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Accordingly we went a-maying, following the lure of dancing winds to a certain westward sloping hill lying under the spirit-like blue of spring skies, feathered over with lisping young pines and firs, which cupped little hollows and corners where ...
— The Golden Road • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... way of the world gone Maying, What of the work of the buds in the bowers, What of the will of the wind on the wall, Fluttering the wall-flowers, sighing and playing, Shrinking again as a bird that cowers, Thinking of hours when the ...
— Poems & Ballads (Second Series) - Swinburne's Poems Volume III • Algernon Charles Swinburne
... young spring leaves burst out a-maying, Fill with their ripening hues orchard and glen; So though old forms pass by, ne'er shall their spirit die, Look! England's bare boughs ...
— Daily Thoughts - selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley by his wife • Charles Kingsley
... awake, make haste, I say, And let us without staying, All in our gowns of green so gay Into the park a-maying." ...
— A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV. • Editor: A.H. Bullen
... while Guinevere is coquettish, passionate, unfeeling, and exacting, and has little to recommend her aside from grace, beauty, and personal magnetism. At court she plays her part of queen and lady of the revels with consummate skill, and we have many descriptions of festivities of all kinds. During a maying party the queen was once kidnapped by a bold admirer and kept for a time in durance vile. Launcelot, posting after her, ruthlessly cut down all who attempted to check him, and, his horse falling at last beneath him, continued his pursuit ...
— The Book of the Epic • Helene A. Guerber |
