Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AUGUST (2), by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY



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First Line: O mellow month and merry
Last Line: With bangles in your hair!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): August; Beauty; Seasons


O MELLOW month and merry month,
Let me make love to you,
And follow you around the world
As knights their ladies do.
I thought your sisters beautiful,
Both May and April, too,
But April she had rainy eyes,
And May had eyes of blue.

And June -- I liked the singing
Of her lips -- and liked her smile --
But all her songs were promises
Of something, after while;
And July's face -- the lights and shades
That may not long beguile
With alternations o'er the wheat
The dreamer at the stile.

But you! -- ah, you are tropical,
Your beauty is so rare;
Your eyes are clearer, deeper eyes
Than any, anywhere;
Mysterious, imperious,
Deliriously fair,
O listless Andalusian maid,
With bangles in your hair!





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