Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A CLIMATIC MADRIGAL, by WILBUR DICK NESBIT Poet's Biography First Line: It is time to go a-maying Last Line: When we have such splendid sleighing! Subject(s): Seasons; Spring; Weather | ||||||||
IT is time to go a-Maying When the frost is in the air, When the snowy boughs are swaying And the fields are white and fair; It is joy, indeed, to wander Through the bosky dells and glades, For it makes a man grow fonder Of the snow through which he wades. 'Tis particularly pleasing Maying with your fingers freezing. Hear the robins' merry chatter, Hark the songs that they repeat While they wonder what's the matter As they nurse their frozen feet! See the butterflies leap gayly As they dance adown the breeze They must exercise thus daily Or with asthma they will wheeze. O't is joyous to go Maying When the world about is playing. See the lambkin as it gambols On the hillside near its dam, How on the frozen slopes it scrambles Cunning, gentle, frigid lamb! How the honeybees are humming, Droning music as they go See, a few of them are coming Coasting on the flakes of snow! How the tender leaves are shaking As from the boughs they're breaking. Come, we'll share our joys together; Welcome spring with hearts elate, Fare forth in the balmy weather We can either stroll or skate. Going Maying thus is joyous In our furs and overshoes, With no sunstrokes to annoy us Who another mood would choose? It is pleasant to go Maying When we have such splendid sleighing! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FARMER'S BOY: AUTUMN by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD HOW TO FORETELL A CHANGE IN THE WEATHER by TED KOOSER LEAVING BUFFALO by CHARLES MARTIN WHEN THE WEATHER CHANGES TO WARM, THE BOYS DRIVE SHIRTLESS by MARY JO BANG THE LIFE OF TOWNS: ONE-MAN TOWN by ANNE CARSON POWER FAILURE by MADELINE DEFREES THE CITY OF THE OLESHA FRUIT by NORMAN DUBIE FRAGMENTS WRITTEN WHILE TRAVELING...A MIDWESTERN HEAT WAVE by JAMES GALVIN A REAL BOY by WILBUR DICK NESBIT |
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