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A YEAR'S CAROLS: MAY by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

Poet Analysis

First Line: HAIL, MAY, WHOSE BARK PUTS FORTH FULL-SAILED
Last Line: IS EVEN A FLOWER OF FLOWERING MAY.
Subject(s): MAY (MONTH); SEASONS; SUMMER;

Hail, May, whose bark puts forth full-sailed
For summer; May, whom Chaucer hailed
With all his happy might of heart,
And gave thy rosebright daisy-tips
Strange fragrance from his amorous lips
That still thine own breath seems to part
And sweeten till each word they say
Is even a flower of flowering May.



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