| L. T. Meade - 1912 - 356 pages
...happy stars above them seem to brighten as they pass; There will not be a drop of rain the whole of the livelong day, And I 'm to be Queen o ' the May, mother, I 'm to be Queen o ' the May. TENNYSON. CHAPTER I. MEBTON GABLES. THERE was no difficulty in the matter. There were... | |
| Sarah Emma Simons, Clem Irwin Orr - 1913 - 410 pages
...happiest time of all the glad New-year; Of all the glad New-year, mother, the maddest merriest day; For I 'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I 'm to be Queen o' the May. I sleep so sound all night, mother, that I shall never wake, If you do not call me loud... | |
| Bret Harte - 1914 - 474 pages
...and the fire is burning clear ; And tallow my nose once more, mother, once more ere you go away, For I 'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I 'm to be Queen o' the May. It froze so hard last night, mother, that really I could n't break The ice in my little... | |
| Bret Harte - 1914 - 488 pages
...poker to take ; You 'll find it there on the hearth, mother — but oh, let that hot brick stay, For I 'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I 'm to be Queen o' the May. , I shall put on my aqua scutem outside of my sealskin coat, And two or three yards of... | |
| Henry Augustus Shute - 1920 - 320 pages
...happiest time of all the glad New Year, Of all the glad New Year, mother, the maddest, merriest day, For I 'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I 'm to be Queen o' the May." And when I read it I could picture a certain young lady in that very schoolroom, a young... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 408 pages
...stars above them seem to brighten as they pass ; There will not be a drop of rain the whole of tl.a livelong day ; And I 'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I 'm to be Queen o' the May. All the valley, mother, 'II be fresh and green an/1 still, And the cowslip and the crowfoot... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 848 pages
...happy stars above them seem to brighten as they pass ; There will not be a drop of rain the whole of urpose of God, and the doom assigned. ODE ON THE DEATH OF THE 'in to be Queen o' the May. All the valley, mother, '11 be fresh and green and still, And the cowslip... | |
| 1879 - 484 pages
...sweet cuckoo flowers; And the wild marsh-marigold shines like fire in swamps and hollows gray, And I'm to be Queen o' the May , mother, I' m to be Queen o' the May. The night- winds come and go , mother , upon the meadow-grass , And the happy stars above... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 402 pages
...I 'm to be Queen o' the May. in. But I must gather knots of flowers, and buds and garlands gay> For I 'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I 'm to he Queen o' the May. Iv. As I came up the valley whom think ye should I see, But Robin leaning on the... | |
| Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1905 - 514 pages
...happiest time of all tlie plad New Year ; Of all the glad New Year, mother, the maddest merriest day ; vor I "m to be Queen o' the May, mother, I 'm to bs Queen o' the Mav. In prose he pictured himself as confronted by House crowded from floor to gallery,... | |
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