You that in love find luck and abundance And live in lust and joyful jollity, Arise for shame! Do away your sluggardy! Arise, I say, do May some observance! Let me in bed lie dreaming in mischance; Let me remember the haps most unhappy That me betide in May most commonly, As one whom love list little to avance. Sephame said true that my nativity Mischanced was with the ruler of the May: He guessed, I prove, of that the verity. In May my wealth and eke my life, I say, Have stond so oft in such perplexity: Rejoice! Let me dream of your felicity. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A MINOR POET by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET FRAGMENTARY BLUE by ROBERT FROST GETTING A WORD IN by JAMES GALVIN EPITAPH FOR A SOLDIER by DAVID IGNATOW TRANSPOSITIONS by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON GOD AND MY COUNTRY by EDGAR LEE MASTERS |