Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MAY-DAY, by AARON HILL



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First Line: Welcome, dear dawn of summer's rising sway
Last Line: And the warmed world is sick with my sweet pains.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; May (month); Summer; Sun


WELCOME, dear dawn of summer's rising sway,
Fair fav'rite of the year! soul-soft'ning May!
Late I have learned, by love's sweet queen inspired,
Why from my youth this day my bosom fired:
'Twas for her birth that blooming nature sprung,
'Twas in her notes the sky's soft rangers sung!
The breeze blew soft to sigh her soul's sweet frame,
And the boughs bent in homage to her name.
Thick shot the meads, to paint her fruitful mind,
And flow'rs, that rolled her breath, enriched the wind.
For her, the sun waked out to bless our isle,
And lighted up half heav'n, to paint her smile:
Oh! we are lovers all! our Celia reigns,
And the warmed world is sick with my sweet pains.





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