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ODES.

1. ON THE SPRING.

[The original manuscript title given by Gray to this Ode, was 'Noontide.' It appeared for the first time in Dodsley's Collection, vol. ii. p. 271, under the title of 'Ode.' See Meleager's Ode to Spring, and Jones. Comm. Poes. Asiaticæ. p. 411. This Ode is formed on Horace's Ode ad Sestium, i. iv, Translated into Latin in Musæ Etonens. vol. ii. p. 60.]

Lo! where the rosy-bosom'd Hours,
Fair Venus' train, appear,
Disclose the long-expecting flowers,
And wake the purple year!

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Notes

↑ Ver. 1. "The Graces, and the rosy-bosom'd Hours." Milton. Comus, v. 984. W. Thoms. Spring, 1007.
↑ V. 2. So Homer. Hymn. ad Vener. ii. 5: τὴν δὲ χρυσάμπυκες ώρες Δέξαντ' ἀσπασίως περὶ δ᾽ ἀμβροτα εἵματα ἔσσαν.}}
The Hours also are joined with Venus in the Hymn. ad Apollin, v. 194. And Hesiod places them in her train:
ἄμφι δὲ τήνγε
Ώραι καλλίκομαι στέφον ἄνθεσιν εἰαρινοῖσι. Εrg. ver. 75
↑ V. 3. "At that soft season when descending showers
Call forth the greens, and wake the rising flowers."
Pope. Temple of Fame, b. i. v. 1. W.—In some editions, "expected" is printed for "expecting." "The flowers that in its womb expecting lie." Dryden. Astræa Redux. Rogers.
↑ V. 4. Apuleius. Nuptiis Cupid, et Psyc. vi. p. 427, ed. Oudendorp: Horæ. rosis, et cæteris floribus purpurabant

[1] Ver. 1. "The Graces, and the rosy-bosom'd Hours." Milton. Comus, v. 984. W. Thoms. Spring, 1007.

[2] V. 2. So Homer. Hymn. ad Vener. ii. 5: τὴν δὲ χρυσάμπυκες ώρες Δέξαντ' ἀσπασίως περὶ δ᾽ ἀμβροτα εἵματα ἔσσαν.}}
The Hours also are joined with Venus in the Hymn. ad Apollin, v. 194. And Hesiod places them in her train:
ἄμφι δὲ τήνγε
Ώραι καλλίκομαι στέφον ἄνθεσιν εἰαρινοῖσι. Εrg. ver. 75

[3] V. 3. "At that soft season when descending showers
Call forth the greens, and wake the rising flowers."
Pope. Temple of Fame, b. i. v. 1. W.—In some editions, "expected" is printed for "expecting." "The flowers that in its womb expecting lie." Dryden. Astræa Redux. Rogers.

[p1-4] V. 4. Apuleius. Nuptiis Cupid, et Psyc. vi. p. 427, ed. Oudendorp: Horæ. rosis, et cæteris floribus purpurabant

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