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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MAY (MONTH) Matches Found: 196 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "ONO MY LOVE, NOTL", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As I was a walking one morning in may Last Line: "and curse the very hour you said, no, my love, not I" Subject(s): Kisses;love;may (month) A BERKSHIRE HOLIDAY, by CLIFFORD BAX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the spring had flowered away full summer burst in middle may Last Line: World. Subject(s): May (month); Nostalgia A MAY DAY ORISON, by ELIZABETH STANLEY TROTTER Poem Text First Line: These are the children of the may Last Line: Emblem of happy hours. Subject(s): Angels; Children; May (month); Spring; Childhood A MAY MONODY, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside my opened window pane Last Line: "come again! Come again!" Subject(s): Birds; Faith; May (month); Memory; Youth; Belief; Creed A MAY MORNING, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The sky is clear Last Line: All thoughts for gladness. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): May (month) A MAY SONG, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O shepherdess come Last Line: And fresh is the may. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Love; May (month); Poetry & Poets; Praise; Singing & Singers A MAY-DAY SONG; PROBABLY NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Remember us poor mayers all Last Line: "so god bless you all, both great and small, / and send you a joyful may" Subject(s): May (month) A MEMORY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We two stood together one day Last Line: Sealed those sweet love-vows with a kiss. Subject(s): Love; May (month); Memory A SPRING SONG AND A LATER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sang a song of may for me Last Line: As dim as autumn rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): May (month); Singing & Singers; Spring A THOUGHT OF MAY, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All that long, mad march day, in the dull town Last Line: And at your kiss the mad march weather fled! Subject(s): March (month); May (month) A YEAR'S CAROLS: MAY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, may, whose bark puts forth full-sailed Last Line: Is even a flower of flowering may. Subject(s): May (month); Seasons; Summer ACROSS THE WAY, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Across the way dim shadows play Last Line: Across the way? Subject(s): Day; May (month) ALL THE WORLD IS RIGHT FOR PLAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text Last Line: In may! Subject(s): Play; May (month) AN END, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go away from me -- do! I am tired Last Line: In the nest of the old, and a ghost on the wing. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; May (month); Spring ANOTHER SARAH, by ANNE PORTER Poem Source First Line: When winter was half over Last Line: A nation of white petals %a dynasty of apples Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; May (month); Smart, Christopher (1722-1771) APRIL, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morning sky is clouding up Subject(s): May (month) ARBOR DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: On arbor day / we think of birds and greening trees Last Line: On arbor day. Subject(s): Arbor Day; May (month); Nature; Trees AS WE DANCE ROUND A-RING A-RING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: And heaven its dews be staying Subject(s): May (month) AUGUST, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She'll come at dusky first of day Last Line: And I will follow her away. Subject(s): August; Beauty; Love; May (month); November BALLADE, by CHRISTINE DE PISAN Poem Source First Line: May-month has come, the lovely month of may Last Line: May wrings from me, with her sweet violets Alternate Author Name(s): Christine De Pisan Subject(s): Love; May (month) BALLADE OF MAYE AND VIRTUE, by CLEMENT MAROT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Full gladlye in this month of maye Last Line: "my love doth laste throughout alle weather." Subject(s): Love; May (month); Time BETRAYED, by MARION HAYN Poem Text First Line: My thoughts thread back to tinsel days Last Line: But wintry winds wail at my door. Subject(s): Betrayal; May (month); Thought; Thinking BLUE-EYED GRASS OF MAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Star, high star, far in the blue Last Line: They are the blue-eyed grass of may! Subject(s): May (month); Stars BROWNING'S GARDEN AT CAMBERWELL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May makes her own blithe beauty, nor doth need Last Line: And may in camberwell recalls, and smiles. Variant Title(s): The Camberwell Garden Subject(s): Flowers; May (month); Sleep BUDS, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The raining hour is done Last Line: Of that companionship. Subject(s): April; May (month); Plants; Planting; Planters CAROL FOR MAY-DAY, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Queen of fresh flowers Last Line: Thou merry month of may! Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; May (month); Spring CEOL SIDHE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When may is here, and every morn Last Line: And all is melody. Subject(s): Fairies; May (month); Music & Musicians; Elves CHESTNUT IN MAY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chestnut builds the loveliest house, the Last Line: Chestnut builds the loveliest house for wooing and for wedding. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Chestnut Trees; Home; Love; Marriage; May (month); Weddings; Husbands; Wives CHLOE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was the charming month of may Last Line: Lovely was she, &c. Subject(s): May (month) COLD DAY IN MAY, by KIMBALL MACKAY-BROOK Poem Source First Line: It's one of those spring days winter Last Line: And when I hung up, the last %crow lifted off, clean as a sun Subject(s): Cold; Houses; May (month) CORINNA'S GOING A-MAYING, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Get up! Get up for shame! The blooming morn Last Line: Come, my corinna, come, let's go a-maying. Variant Title(s): Going A-maying;may-day Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Courtship; Death; Holidays; May (month); New Year; Spring; Transience; Dead, The; Impermanence CROCUSES, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Desires Last Line: Of ivory, purple, and gold. Subject(s): Crocuses; Desire; May (month); Plants; Planting; Planters DEAD MAN'S MORRICE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There came a crowder to the mermaid inn Last Line: And look in vain. Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Forests; Ghosts; Lips; May (month); Night; Supernatural; Dead, The; Woods; Bedtime DUTCHMAN'S BREECHES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the month when lilacs bloom Last Line: The garments of the great ten broeck. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Legends; May (month); Nature; New York City - Dutch Period EARLY MAY STANZAS, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A may wood. The invisible removal load Last Line: The load is burning with chilly flames Subject(s): Birds; May (month); Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers EARLY MAY STANZAS, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A may wood. The invisible removal load Last Line: The load is burning with chilly flames Subject(s): Birds; May (month); Poetry And Poets; Singing And Singers ELIZABETH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elizabeth! Elizabeth! / the first may-morning whispereth Last Line: Elizabeth! Elizabeth! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Love; May (month); Names; Dead, The ENGLISH MAY, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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) EVENING IN MAY, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is nought tragic here, tho' night Last Line: Has all in one short plagiarised rhyme. Subject(s): Birds; Blackbirds; Love; May (month); Plagiarism FELISE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall be said between us here Last Line: Good-night, good-bye. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Love - Loss Of; May (month) FIRST OF MAY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While from the purpling east departs Last Line: The sovereignty of may. Subject(s): May (month) FLUTE OF MAY, by HARRY WOODBOURNE Poem Source First Line: In grey april when the bud rounded Subject(s): May (month) FROM A MOTOR IN MAY, by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves of autumn and the buds of spring Last Line: The leaves of autumn guard the buds of spring. Subject(s): Autumn; May (month); Nature; Order; Seasons; Spring; Fall GARDEN LORE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a flowery shrub the may brings Last Line: "when your lady comes!" Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Happiness; Hearts; May (month); Joy; Delight GIRLS' YARROW-GATHERING VERSE FOR MAY-DAY EVENING; NIELSTON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Yarrow, fair yarrow! Last Line: And the words he'll speak, %when he comes to court me Subject(s): May (month) GOD'S GOLD, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: God placed a gold mint in the sky Last Line: All ye with eyes! Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; May (month); Weeds HABITATION, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High up in the sky there, now, you know Last Line: But we are there -- we are waiting ourselves who come. Subject(s): Cows; May (month) HAWTHORN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I see her where the budding may Last Line: My forgotten may Subject(s): Hawthorn;may (month);memory HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM ABROAD, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, to be in england, now that april's there Last Line: Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower! Variant Title(s): April In England Subject(s): April; England; Environment; Fields; Homesickness; May (month); Nature; Spring; Travel; Trees; English; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Journeys; Trips HOW A FAIRY SPENDS THE DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Can you climb to the top of a pea-vine / tall Last Line: And never minds it at all! Subject(s): Fairies; May (month); Elves IN MAY, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When grosbeaks show a damask rose Last Line: And all the world is glad with may. Subject(s): May (month); Spring IN MAY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Yes, I will spend the livelong day Last Line: A flowery, green, bird-singing land. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): May (month) IN MAY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh to have you in may Last Line: Of what you once were to me. Subject(s): May (month) IN MAY, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I hear something more Last Line: But flight too %creates depth Subject(s): May (month); Poetry And Poets IN MAY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I praise god that he chose the green Last Line: To wrap our sweetheart-mother in. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Colors; God; Green (color); May (month); Praise IN PRAISE OF MAY, by FIONN MACCUMHAILL Poem Text First Line: May-day! Delightful day! Last Line: Delicate-hued, delightful may. Subject(s): May (month); Spring IN THE MONTH OF MAY, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the month of may when all leaves open Last Line: I would like us to spend the night Subject(s): Love - Marital; May (month); Wedded Love; Marriage - Love IN THE MONTH OF MAY, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the month of may when all leaves open Last Line: Along the roads, I see so many places %I would like us to spend the night Subject(s): Love - Marital; May (month) IT HAPPENED IN MAY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A maid forsaken Last Line: And it happened in may. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Kisses; May (month); Prayer JEWISH MAY, by MORRIS ROSENFELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: May has come from out the showers Last Line: Still upon the ruined hearth! Subject(s): Jews; May (month) LAST OF MAY, TO THE CHILDREN OF MARY OF CATHEDRAL OF MOBILE, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the mystical dim of the temple Last Line: For the last lovely evening of may. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; May (month); Women - Bible; Virgin Mary LITTLE FOLKS IN THE GRASS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: In the grass / a thousand little people pass Last Line: Through the grass! Subject(s): Children; May (month); Childhood LOVE AND COQUETRY, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That tender passion! From its birth Last Line: One only source -- 'tis all divine. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; May (month); Passion LOVE NEVER DIES, by MONICA WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: Love never dies - she sometimes slips away Last Line: Beyond our thinking and without our ken. Subject(s): Death; Love; May (month); Dead, The LUSTY MAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o lusty may, with flora queen" Last Line: Through gladness of this lusty may Subject(s): May (month) LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 1, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the beauteous month of may Last Line: My vows of love was bringing. Subject(s): Love; May (month) LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 30, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The earth had long been avaricious Last Line: "they ""madam"" entitle, with chilling formality." Subject(s): Bells; Birds; Earth; Laughter; May (month); World MAGIC, by MARIE TODD Poem Text First Line: A candle blooms upon the sill Last Line: There's may upon my window ledge. Subject(s): May (month); Nature; Seasons; Winter MAIDS IN MAY, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three maids there were in meadow bright Last Line: To little children of the poor Subject(s): Children; Girls; May (month); Poppies MAY, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hebe's here, may is here! Last Line: In the hearts of roses. Subject(s): Hebe (goddess Of Youth And Spring); May (month); Spring MAY, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come out o' door, 'tis spring! 'tis may! Last Line: Behine' for thee, o flow'ry maÿ! Subject(s): May (month); Nature; Spring MAY, by DAFYDD AP GWILYM Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Many a poet in his lay Last Line: Rules with all her bright array. Alternate Author Name(s): Dafydd Ab Gwilym; Dafyod Ap Gwilym; David Ap Gwilim Subject(s): May (month) MAY, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When all their blooms the meadows flaunt Last Line: On its own first of may. Subject(s): May (month) MAY, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI Poem Text First Line: Come, dear, for it is may. Leave work and book Last Line: Come, dear. Subject(s): May (month) MAY, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blooming, brooding, balmy may Last Line: The god of nature, light, and love? Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): May (month); Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects MAY, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She leans across an orchard gate somewhere Last Line: Where she is south of these wild days and drear. Subject(s): May (month) MAY, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I feel a newer life in every gale Last Line: Hail the returning sun. Variant Title(s): The Reign Of May Subject(s): May (month) MAY, by JUAN LORENZO SEGURA Poem Source First Line: It was the month of may, a glorious time Last Line: Are good - and the most tender deem the best Subject(s): May (month) MAY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful queen of all the twelve Last Line: Sings the plaintive whippo'will. Subject(s): Flowers; May (month) MAY, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind is tossing the lilac Last Line: Is false to me in may. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): May (month) MAY, by KAREN VOLKMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): May (month) MAY, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the merry may has pleasant hours Last Line: In the beautiful time of spring. Subject(s): May (month); Spring MAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Moon of green leaves,' so Last Line: Spoke your name, dear month of may. Subject(s): May (month); Native Americans - Children MAY (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot tell you how it was Last Line: And left me old, and cold, and grey. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): May (month) MAY (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet life is dead / not so Last Line: And blossoms where I tread. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Life; May (month); Dead, The MAY AND JUNE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: May trips in the dance Last Line: But june follows after! Subject(s): June; May (month) MAY AT THE WINDOW, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: Now may is at the window Last Line: And laying its iron hand around your heart %--spring on earth Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; May (month); Spring MAY BASKETS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: In other lands the children bring Last Line: And tell our way the joy of spring. Subject(s): Harvest; May (month); Spring MAY BREEZES, by MARY COLES CARRINGTON Poem Text First Line: Whither wouldst thou lead my feet Last Line: Back to yesterday! Subject(s): May (month); Nature MAY DAY, by ADELAIDE A. ANDREWS Poem Text First Line: Oh, world, sometimes I cannot bear the load Last Line: If I can see a may day born again. Subject(s): May (month); Pain; Rebirth; Suffering; Misery MAY DAY, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O haste, o haste to the fields away Last Line: And pour for us the simple lay! Subject(s): Flowers; May (month); Spring MAY DAY, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shining line of motors Last Line: Too beautiful to bear. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Variant Title(s): The Dark Cup: 1. May Subject(s): May (month) MAY DAY, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shining line of motors Last Line: Too beautiful to bear. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Variant Title(s): The Dark Cup: 1. May Subject(s): May (month) MAY GROWN A-COLD, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O certainly, no month this is but may Last Line: Thy love is gone, poor wretch, thou art alone! Subject(s): May (month) MAY HAS DECKED THE WORLD, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text Last Line: And bring may meadow gifts to you Subject(s): May (month) MAY IN THE GREEN WOOD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In somer when the shawes be sheyne Last Line: In a mornynge of may Subject(s): May (month) MAY IS PRETTY, MAY IS MILD, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text Last Line: Come out, children, join the play Subject(s): May (month) MAY MORNING, by UNA W. HARSEN Poem Text First Line: Taste to the full this fleeting hour Last Line: Lest, with its passing, joy too shall depart. Subject(s): May (month); Moon; Morning MAY MORNING, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: One flashed upon her dreaming Last Line: His promise to recall. Subject(s): Hearts; Heaven; Life; Love; May (month); Paradise MAY MORNING, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Warm, wild, rainy wind, blowing fitfully Last Line: That I may be a child again this blissful morn of may. Subject(s): May (month); Nature MAY MORNING, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text 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 MAY QUEEN ODE; FRAGMENT, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fairies guard the queen of may Last Line: All beneath a smiling sky. Subject(s): May (month) MAY SNOW, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: May is a blue and gold and green Last Line: You're just petals from the tree! Subject(s): May (month); Snow; Weather MAY SONG, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The ardent woodbird seeks his mate Last Line: And heaven kiss my lips! Subject(s): Birds; Love; May (month) MAY TIME, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You that in love find luck and abundance Last Line: Rejoice! Let me dream of your felicity. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 33 Subject(s): Love; May (month) MAY WAY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The moon on a bright may day Last Line: Like winnie bird, will have her way Subject(s): May (month); Moon MAY, 1864, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now o'er the laughing meadows Last Line: "through her, to nature's god." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): May (month); Nature MAY-DAY, by AARON HILL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, dear dawn of summer's rising sway Last Line: And the warmed world is sick with my sweet pains. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; May (month); Summer; Sun MAY-TIME, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, it is may! Last Line: Intimate, ever-renewed, than the circle of shallower changes. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Fate; Life; May (month); Memory; Destiny MAY-TIME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There is but one may in the year Subject(s): May (month) MAYER'S SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: We've been a-rambling all this night Subject(s): May (month) MAYTIME, by EMMA GERTRUDE JAECK Poem Text First Line: How glorious the earth in festal array! Last Line: Of love and joy redeeming all. Subject(s): May (month) MAYTIME, by DELLA ADAMS LEITNER Poem Text First Line: The air is filled with fragrance; orchard trees Last Line: Of beauty's charm; this is the gift of may. Subject(s): May (month) MEMORIAL DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Is it enough to think to-day Last Line: And be ourselves, in turn, the brave! Subject(s): Courage; Holidays; May (month); Memorial Day; Valor; Bravery; Declaration Day MORNING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Breath of morning - breath of Last Line: Let us be as we have been! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): May (month); Morning; Youth MY HEAVEN, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love the fresh, sweet charm of vernal skies in may Last Line: -- more frightful unto me than the midnight of the tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Death; Heaven; May (month); Nature; Seasons; Time; Dead, The; Paradise MY QUEEN OF MAY, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The laughing garlanded may-time is here Last Line: Than on some weaker heart to sink content. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): May (month) NEW SPRING: 25, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me who first taught clocks to chime Last Line: The sun was laughing, the birds were singing. Subject(s): Kisses; May (month); Spring NEW SPRING: 5, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet may hath come to love us Last Line: And dream of days gone by. Subject(s): May (month) NEXT MAY, by T. K. WHIPPLE Poem Text First Line: Next may the cherry-blossoms bright Last Line: Live on in hearts of other men! Subject(s): Holidays; May (month); New Year NIGHT OF FROST IN MAY, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With splendour of a silver day Last Line: Seen spinning on the bracken-crook. Subject(s): Frost; May (month) ODE IN MAY, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me go forth, and share Last Line: That chant the chant of the whole. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): May (month) OLD MAY SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "all in this pleasant evening, together come are we" Last Line: To draw you these cold winters away Subject(s): May (month) OLDE MAY SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "all in this pleasant evening, together come are we" Last Line: Drawing near unto the merry month of may Subject(s): May (month) ON MAY MORNING, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger Last Line: And welcome thee, and wish thee long. Variant Title(s): Song On May Morning Subject(s): May (month); Morning Star ON MAY MORNING, TO A LADY, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winter no more the weeping fields deforms Last Line: And in their bosoms feel another spring. Subject(s): Forests; May (month); Morning; Nature; Nymphs; Praise; Solitude; Spring; Woods; Loneliness ON THE OCCURENCE OF A SPELL OF ARTIC WEATHER IN MAY, 1858, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We thought that winter with his hungry pack Last Line: Dies 'mid the scarlet flowers that round her lie, %like waning flames of some rich funeral fire! Subject(s): May (month) OVER THE MAY HILL, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All through the night time, and all through the day time Last Line: My heart and my love will be lying ere long. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Death; Hearts; Love; May (month); Night; Dead, The; Bedtime PADSTOW NIGHT SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Unite, unite, let us all unite Subject(s): May (month) PART OF A CHESHIRE MAYING SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: All on this pleasant evening together come are we Last Line: And if your body be asleep, we hope your soul's at rest, %drawing near to the merry month of may Subject(s): May (month) PROMISE OF MAY: SONG (1), by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The town lay still in the low sunlight Last Line: O joy for the promise of may Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): May (month) PROMISE OF MAY: SONG (2), by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O happy lark, that warblest high Last Line: And how I long for rest Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): May (month) RHYME FOR REMEMBRANCE OF MAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Remember may? / oh, till no more a color tincts the spray Last Line: May means remembering you! Subject(s): Dreams; Life; May (month); Memory; Rhyme; Nightmares ROUND ONE, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: Take blue under cottonwoods, those prayersticks Last Line: The first leaves drifted loose, all those souvenirs of august where your face should be Subject(s): August; February; May (month); November SHEPHERD'S CALENDAR: MAY, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come queen of months in company Last Line: To crown thee still as thou hast been %of spring and summers months the queen Subject(s): May (month) SILHOUETTE, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies and gallants, well a day! Last Line: In midmost love—in midmost may! Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; May (month); Male-female Relations SILVIO'S COMPLAINT: A SONG, TO A FINE SCOTCH TUNE, by APHRA BEHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the blooming time o'th year Last Line: For wishing to be king. Alternate Author Name(s): Astraea; Behn, Afara; Behn, Apharra; Amis, Ayfara Subject(s): May (month); Singing & Singers; Spring; Wishes; Youth; Songs SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 35, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is but one may in the year Last Line: Bring up the flowers. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): May (month) SONG, by JOSEPH ADDISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh the charming month of may! Last Line: Who on, &c. Subject(s): May (month) SONG, by JOSEPH ADDISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Echo, tell me, while I wander Last Line: Echo: wed him, wed him! Subject(s): May (month) SONG TO MAY, by EDWARD HOVELL-THURLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May! Queen of blossoms Last Line: See, the lark quivers! Alternate Author Name(s): Thurlow, 2d Baron Subject(s): May (month) SONGS OF THE NIGHT WATCHES: CONCLUDING SONG. A MORN OF MAY, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the clouds about the sun lay up in golden creases Last Line: O! Sweetly she did carol all on that morn of may. Subject(s): Clouds; Dawn; Happiness; May (month); Night; Singing & Singers; Sunrise; Joy; Delight; Bedtime; Songs SONNET TO MAY, by JANE WEST Poem Text First Line: Come may, the empire of the earth assume Last Line: All gracious may! Thy presence, and thy power. Alternate Author Name(s): Iliffe, Jane Subject(s): May (month) SONNET: SYLVAN MUSINGS - IN MAY, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Couched in cool shadow, girt by billowy swells Last Line: The thrush's bridal passion, warm and soft! Subject(s): May (month) SONNETS OF THE MONTHS: MAY, by GIACOMO DI MICHELE Poem Text First Line: I give you horses for your games in may Last Line: And every day be glad with joyful love. Alternate Author Name(s): Folgore Da San Gimignano; Di Michele, Giacomo Subject(s): May (month) SPRING FANTASIES: 1. MAY DAY IN MARCH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: March with her madcap winds, march with her weather Last Line: Twas ever anything on earth but may! Subject(s): Faith; Fantasy; March (month); May (month); Seasons; Soul; Spring; Belief; Creed SPRING SONG ON TOAST, by LUNA CRAVEN OSBURN Poem Text First Line: Apple blossoms drifting Last Line: May sweetly woos the earth. Subject(s): Apples; Earth; Flowers; Fruit; May (month); World SPRING: 3. MAY, by DIANE HUETER Poem Source First Line: What is the language they speak now on the rim? Last Line: I feel the quake, the torrent Subject(s): May (month) SUCH JOY IT WAS, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such joy it was with love to walk! Last Line: The month it was the month of may. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): May (month) SWEET MAY MORN, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis sweet may morn; wake, drowsy girls! Last Line: A happy home—a husband kind! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Courtship; Girls; Marriage; May (month); Morning; Nature; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THAT OTHER MAUD MULLER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maud muller worked at making hay Last Line: And raked the judge instead of the hay. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Cups; Judges; May (month) THE AIRPLANE, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I like to see the airplane and hear the buzzing sound Last Line: You'd think perhaps 'twould find a star to light on in the sky. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Birds; May (month); Wings THE ARTIST MAY, by EDITH HILL CARNES Poem Text First Line: How color-conscious is the artist may! Last Line: How color-conscious is the artist may! Subject(s): May (month) THE DAWN OF MAY, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come away, come away, in the dawn of may Last Line: In the sunny dawn of may. Subject(s): May (month) THE END OF MAY, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How the wind howls this morn Last Line: More hope to perish soon. Subject(s): May (month) THE FIRST OF MAY, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The orchards half the way Last Line: And ludlow fair again. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Aging; May (month) THE FIRST OF MAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: If I could stay up late no doubt Last Line: I'd catch the buds just bursting out. Subject(s): Children; May (month); Childhood THE FIRST SONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A poet writ a song of may Last Line: Deep hidden in his heart. Subject(s): Hearts; Life; May (month); Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Songs THE FRIENDLY TREE, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I've found a place beside a friendly tree Last Line: "my true and silent friend." Subject(s): Friendship; May (month); Trees THE GHOSTLY MAYERS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, who will take the road with me at breaking of the day! Last Line: The rocking white, the dropping white, a mile along the wall. Subject(s): May (month) THE GODS' TWILIGHT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair may has come with her bright golden radiance Last Line: Headlong together, and old night is lord. Subject(s): Earth; Evening; Grief; May (month); Poetry & Poets; World; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness THE IDLER'S CALENDAR: MAY. THE LONDON SEASON, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I still love london in the month of may Subject(s): May (month); London THE JEWISH MAY, by MORRIS ROSENFELD Poet's Biography First Line: May has come from out the showers Subject(s): Jews; May (month); Judaism THE LITTLE CHILDREN, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hunger points a bony finger Last Line: With gladness, youth and may. Subject(s): Children; Hunger; May (month); Childhood THE LOVELINESS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, what a long and loitering way Last Line: Forever brightening. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fairies; May (month); Youth; Elves THE MAY FLOWER; INSCRIBED TO A VERY DEAR FRIEND, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May, sweet may! This branch of blossom Last Line: My will to heaven, live unrepining. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Friendship; Gifts & Giving; Hawthorn; May (month) THE MAY MAGNIFICAT, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May is mary's month, and I Last Line: In god who was her salvation. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; May (month); Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE MAY-POLE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The may-pole is up Last Line: Then multiply all, like to fishes. Subject(s): May (month) THE MONTH FOR ME, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, may is the month for me! Last Line: And not a cent to pay! Subject(s): May (month) THE MONTH OF MARY; A SONG, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green are the leaves, and sweet the flowers Last Line: And they will ne'er decay. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; May (month); Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE PEEPING VINE, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The small vine wants to come inside Last Line: And watch us from the window sill. Subject(s): Children; May (month); Childhood THE PLEASANT MONTH OF MAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "so ye maidens and ye swains, etc" Subject(s): Love;may (month);singing & Singers THE POET'S CALENDAR: MAY, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! The sea-faring wild-fowl loud proclaim Last Line: My birthplace. I am maia. I am may. Subject(s): May (month) THE QUEEN OF SEASONS; A SONG FOR AN INCLEMENT MAY, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All is divine / which the highest has made Last Line: And is pledge of the rest. Subject(s): May (month) THE QUEST OF SUMMER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had been waiting long Last Line: Is the summer here again. Subject(s): Birds; Life; May (month); Nature; Spring; Summer THE RETURN OF MAY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail! Fairy queen, adorned with flowers Last Line: Oh! Lovely may. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Flowers; May (month) THE ROBINS' OTHER NAME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the orchard-days, when you Last Line: "we called robins ""bessie-birds." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): May (month); Orchards; Robins THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: MAY, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is not thilke the mery moneth of may Last Line: I hold it best for us home to hye. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Variant Title(s): The Old Shepherd's May Song Subject(s): Country Life; May (month); Religion; Theology THE SHEPHERD'S HOLIDAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The month of may is now begun Last Line: All on the shepherd's holiday Subject(s): Holidays;love;may (month);shepherds & Shepherdesses THE SKIES ARE GAY, 'TIS MERRY MAY, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Beyond the hedge the sea doth glint. Never shell shone so well. One Last Line: Weep his fate to-day. The skies are gay, 'tis merry may. Subject(s): May (month); Sea; Sky; Ocean THE SONGSTER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of a plaintive note, and long Last Line: That his breast was born for song. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Birds; May (month); Robins; Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs THIS DAMSEL HERE LIES DEAD, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: This damsel here lies dead, lies dead in love's array Last Line: And to the fields they go, as they go every day. Subject(s): Death; Love; May (month); Dead, The THIS SWEET AND MERRY MONTH OF MAY, by WILLIAM BYRD Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Take well in worth a simple toy. Subject(s): May (month); Nature; Pleasure THOUGHTS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I think I'd like to live on mars Last Line: And see the wrong side of the stars. Subject(s): Children; Cosmology; Imagination; May (month); Planets; Sky; Stars; Childhood; Fancy THOUGHTS AT THE TRYSTING STILE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, may, and hang a white flag on each thorn Last Line: Like wind-looped flowers. Subject(s): Laughter; May (month); Psyche (mythology) TO A BIRD, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O bird that darts now low, now high Last Line: But never can be wise as you! Subject(s): Birds; May (month); Wisdom TO A TREE, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Beautiful tree, feet in the ground Last Line: Seek you, like me, god in the sky? Subject(s): May (month); Trees TO MAY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though many suns have risen and set Last Line: Part seen, imagined part! Subject(s): May (month) TO MISS RAWLINSON, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of the many flowers you brought me Last Line: Was the blossom of the may. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Flowers; May (month) TORMENTUM, by CHARLES ADOLPHE CANTUCUZENE Poem Text First Line: My fear beyond the door has sped Last Line: Nay, for it may be thou art dead! Subject(s): Death; Fear; Happiness; Lips; Love; May (month); Dead, The; Joy; Delight TWILIGHT, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The first glad breath of day is dear Last Line: One small dream changes to a star! Subject(s): Dreams; May (month); Nightmares VENICE: MAY DAY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more it is early summer Subject(s): Daughters; Holidays; May (month); Parents; Venice, Italy; Parenthood VENICE: MAY DAY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more it is early summer Last Line: Know that it has passed them by Subject(s): Daughters; Holidays; May (month); Parents; Venice, Italy VILLAGE GIRLS' MAY-DAY SONG, HERTFORDSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The first of may has come again Last Line: God bless you all, both great and small, %and send you a joyful may Subject(s): May (month) WAR NOTES: 1. 'EXTRAS', by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The crocuses in the square Last Line: With heaven's own patience are calm and sweet. Subject(s): Faces; May (month); Nations; Sea; War; Ocean WHITE HEN, by FREDERICK R. MCCREARY Poem Text First Line: Then the wind-ruffled white hen of march Last Line: Cool-handed april and may! Subject(s): April; Chickens; Hens; March (month); May (month) |
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