Wanderers They Knew Not Where (25).
In their quietest times, they sang ballads and told tales, for the edification of their pious visitors; or perplexed them …
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Wanderers They Knew Not Where (23).
Once, it is said, they were seen following a flower-decked corpse, with merriment and festive music, to his grave. But …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (20).
Up with your nimble spirits, ye morrice-dancers, green-men, and glee-maidens, bears and wolves, and horned gentlemen! Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The May-Pole …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (19).
From the moment that they truly loved, they had subjected themselves to earth’s doom of care, and sorrow, and troubled …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (18).
“O, Edith, this is our golden time! Tarnish it not by any pensive shadow of the mind; for it may …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (14).
This venerated emblem was a pine tree, which had preserved the slender grace of youth, while it equalled the loftiest …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (12).
Alas, for the young lovers! No sooner had their hearts glowed with real passion, than they were sensible of something …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (11).
“Edith, sweet Lady of the May,” whispered he, reproachfully, “is yon wreath of roses a garland to hang above our …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (10).
Such were the colonists of Merry Mount, as they stood in the broad smile of sunset, round their venerated May-Pole. …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (8).
“Edith, sweet Lady of the May,” whispered he, reproachfully, “is yon wreath of roses a garland to hang above …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (7).
But a band of Puritans, who watched the scene, invisible themselves, compared the masques to those devils and ruined souls, …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (6.)
It could not be, that the Fauns and Nymphs, when driven from their classic groves and homes of ancient fable, …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (5).
Never had the May-Pole been so gaily decked as at sunset on midsummer eve… Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The May-Pole of Merry …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (4).
Lo, here stand the Lord and Lady of the May, whom I, a clerk of Oxford, and high priest of …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (3).
But what was the wild throng that stood hand in hand about the May-Pole? It could not be, that the …
