All of it was sickening, dis- maying- How could it have gone so far?

Now is the Month of Maying - song (1907)

One of his best known madrigals is called Now is the Month of Maying.

"Now I must do my Maying, for there will be no more sunshine, and I want to pick my flowers before it is dark.

"What-" "Now is the month of Maying," he sang, stroking her flinching sphincter again.

In honor of the maying, the betrothed Princess Bonne and all her retinue were dressed in malachite-green silk.

"Jealous Heart" / "Now Is The Month Of Maying" (Parlophone) (1959)

There are also a few modular designs in the Chinese paperfolding tradition, notably the Pagoda (from Maying Soong) and the Lotus made from Joss paper.

COMRADES WHERE are the friends that I knew in my Maying, In the days of my youth, in the first of my roaming?

Usually his madrigals are light, quick-moving and easily singable, like his well-known "Now is the Month of Maying" (which is actually a ballett); he took the aspects of Italian style that suited his personality and anglicised them.

Were an apple tree a pine, Tall and slim, and softly swaying, Then her beauty were like thine, Salmacis, when boune a Maying, Tall as any poplar tree, Sweet as apple blossoms be!

COMMUNITY CHURCH OF GLEN ROCK Cantalyrica presents "Now Is the Month of Maying," featuring music of Beach, Copland and Vaughn Williams.

Among his genre paintings we may mention his 'Highland Keeper's Daughter' (1866), 'Waiting for the Ferry,' 'Return from Maying,' and 'Too Late,' a striking picture exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1869, in which year he died.

Every 1 May, at 6am, the choir of the college (including boy choristers from nearby Magdalen College School) sings two traditional hymns - the Hymnus Eucharisticus and "Now Is the Month of Maying" - to start the May Morning celebrations in Oxford.

That white and green were sometimes associated together in connection with the observances of May is shown by an account, in Hall's Chronicle, of a "maying" of Henry VIII of England, in which the company were clad in green on one occasion and in white on another.