Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN PRAISE OF MAY, by FIONN MACCUMHAILL First Line: May-day! Delightful day! Last Line: Delicate-hued, delightful may. Subject(s): May (month); Spring | ||||||||
MAY-DAY! delightful day! Bright colours play the vale along. Now wakes at morning's slender ray Wild and gay the blackbird's song. Now comes the bird of dusty hue, The loud cuckoo, the summer-lover; Branchy trees are thick with leaves; The bitter, evil time is over. Swift horses gather nigh Where half dry the river goes; Tufted heather clothes the height; Weak and white the bogdown blows. Corncrake sings from eve to morn, Deep in corn, a strenuous bard! Sings the virgin waterfall, White and tall, her one sweet word. Loaded bees with puny power Goodly flower-harvest win; Cattle roam with muddy flanks; Busy ants go out and in. Through the wild harp of the wood Making music roars the gale Now it settles without motion, On the ocean sleeps the sail. Men grow mighty in the May, Proud and gay the maidens grow; Fair is every wooded height; Fair and bright the plain below. A bright shaft has smit the streams, With gold gleams the water-flag; Leaps the fish, and on the hills Ardor thrills the leaping stag. Loudly carols the lark on high, Small and shy, his tireless lay, Singing in wildest, merriest mood, Delicate-hued, delightful May. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPRING LEMONADE by TONY HOAGLAND A SPRING SONG by LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN SPRING'S RETURN by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS ODE TO SPRING by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD ODE TO SPRING by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD SPRING FLOODS by MAURICE BARING SPRING IN WINTER by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES SPRING ON THE PRAIRIE by HERBERT BATES THE FARMER'S BOY: SPRING by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD I COULD TAKE by HAYDEN CARRUTH |
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