You that in love find luck and abundance And live in lust and joyful jollity, Arise for shame! Do away your sluggardy! Arise, I say, do May some observance! Let me in bed lie dreaming in mischance; Let me remember the haps most unhappy That me betide in May most commonly, As one whom love list little to avance. Sephame said true that my nativity Mischanced was with the ruler of the May: He guessed, I prove, of that the verity. In May my wealth and eke my life, I say, Have stond so oft in such perplexity: Rejoice! Let me dream of your felicity. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BUT NOW by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON AN EXPLANATION by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON THE HARD TIMES IN ELFLAND; A STORY OF CHRISTMAS EVE by SIDNEY LANIER RECESSIONAL by EDGAR LEE MASTERS TUNICA PALLIO PROPRIOR by MARIANNE MOORE YOU SAY YOU SAID by MARIANNE MOORE |