Beautiful Queen of all the Twelve, Sweet and bounteous May! Earth, air and water teem with life, All nature is glad and gay. The Earth in vendure now is clothed, Apple trees are in bloom; On the woodland air the violet, Sends forth its sweet perfume. Among the blooming elders where The brook and streamlet flow, There pout the dainty blue flags and Shy night primroses grow. Down in the green, grassy meadow, A-blooming side by side, Cowslips and gaudy dandelions Nod with coquettish pride. The ever busy honey bees Make honey hour by hour; And sipping sweets the butterflies Fly 'round from flower to flower. 'Neath the trees the blue sweet-williams Are blooming on the hill, Where late at eve when day is done Sings the plaintive whippo'will. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO W. HOHENZOLLERN: A PLEA by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS SONNET: GHOSTS by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH THESEUS AND ARIADNE by FRANCIS BEAUMONT BAB-LOCK-HYTHE by LAURENCE BINYON RELIQUES by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |