Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SUMMER LONGINGS, by DENIS FLORENCE MCCARTHY


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First Line: Ah! My heart is weary waiting
Last Line: Waiting for the may!
Alternate Author Name(s): Maccarthy, Denis Florence
Variant Title(s): Waiting For The May
Subject(s): Nature; Summer


AH! my heart is weary waiting,
Waiting for the May,--
Waiting for the plesant rambles
Where the fragrant hawthorn-brambles,
With the woodbine alternating,
Scent the dewy way.
Ah! my heart is weary waiting,
Waiting for the May.
Ah! my heart is sick with longing,
Longing for the May,--
Longing to escape from study
To the young face fair and ruddy,
And the thousand charms belonging
To the summer's day.
Ah! my heart is sick with longing,
Longing for the May.
Ah! my heart is sore with sighing,
Sighing for the May,--
Sighing for their sure returning,
When the summer beams are burning,
Hopes and flowers that, dead or dying,
All the winter lay.
Ah! my heart is sore with sighing,
Sighing for the May.
Ah! my heart is pained with throbbing,
Throbbing for the May,--
Throbbing for the seaside billows,
Or the water-wooing willows;
Where, in laughing and in sobbing,
Glide the streams away.
Ah! my heart, my heart is throbbing,
Throbbing for the May.
Waiting sad, dejected, weary,
Waiting for the May:
Spring goes by with wasted warnings,--
Moonlit evenings, sunbright mornings,--
Summer comes, yet dark and dreary
Life still ebbs away;
Man is ever weary, weary,
Waiting for the May!




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