Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MAY MORNING, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The school boy loitered on his way to school Last Line: Its blue commingling with the firmament. Subject(s): May (month); Spring | ||||||||
The school boy loitered on his way to school, Scorning to live so rare a day by rule. So mild the air a pleasure 'twas to breathe, For what seems heaven above was earth beneath. Soured neighbors chatted by the garden pale, Nor quarrelled who should drive the needed nail -- The most unsocial made new friends that day, As when the sun shines husbandmen make hay How long I slept I know not, but at last I felt my consciousness returning fast, For Zephyr rustled past with leafy tread, And heedlessly with one heel grazed my head. My eyelids opened on a field of blue, For close above a nodding violet grew, A part of heaven it seemed, which one could scent, Its blue commingling with the firmament. | 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 |
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