Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ENGLISH MAY, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI


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First Line: Would god your health were as this month of may
Last Line: The garland of your beauty bloom anew.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): May (month)


WOULD God your health were as this month of May
Should be, were this not England,--and your face
Abroad, to give the gracious sunshine grace
And laugh beneath the budding hawthorn-spray.
But here the hedgerows pine from green to grey
While yet May's lyre is tuning, and her song
Is weak in shade that should in sun be strong;
And your pulse springs not to so faint a lay.

If in my life be breath of Italy,
Would God that I might yield it all to you!
So, when such grafted warmth had burgeoned through
The languor of your Maytime's hawthorn-tree,
My spirit at rest should walk unseen and see
The garland of your beauty bloom anew.





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