Maying

I was also told by another student that a passage from "Corinna's Going A-Maying" which the student correctly identified by title and author and said otherwise smart or at least accurate things about provided an example of that popular theme in Cavalier poetry, "ceasing the day."

Archive 2006-12-01 Flavia 2006

I was also told by another student that a passage from "Corinna's Going A-Maying" which the student correctly identified by title and author and said otherwise smart or at least accurate things about provided an example of that popular theme in Cavalier poetry, "ceasing the day."

Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2006

Somewhat, Theocritus, thou hast to answer for, thou that first of men brought the shepherd to Court, and made courtiers wild to go a Maying with the shepherds.

Letters to Dead Authors 2006

Susannah emerged from the trees, even more beautiful in cursed death than she had been in life, her Maying gown translucent in the moonlight.

My Demon's Kiss Lucy Blue 2005

Susannah emerged from the trees, even more beautiful in cursed death than she had been in life, her Maying gown translucent in the moonlight.

My Demon's Kiss Lucy Blue 2005

Susannah emerged from the trees, even more beautiful in cursed death than she had been in life, her Maying gown translucent in the moonlight.

My Demon's Kiss Lucy Blue 2005

With resolution, she got her sprig of rosemary, broke it, and made the proper incantation, then got a basket and went a-Maying.

Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004

I departed out of London in the ship called the Tiger, in the company of M. Iohn Newbery, M. Ralph Fitch, and sixe or seuen other honest marchants vpon Shroue munday 1583, and arriued in Tripolis of Syria the first day of May next insuing: at our landing we went on Maying vpon S. Georges Iland, a place where Christians dying aboord the ships, are woont to be buried.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

How Queen Guenever rode a-Maying with certain knights of the Round Table and clad all in green.

Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

SO it befell in the month of May, Queen Guenever called unto her knights of the Table Round; and she gave them warning that early upon the morrow she would ride a-Maying into woods and fields beside Westminster.

Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003