Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE POET'S CALENDAR: MAY, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW


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First Line: Hark! The sea-faring wild-fowl loud proclaim
Last Line: My birthplace. I am maia. I am may.
Subject(s): May (month)


Hark! The sea-faring wild-fowl loud proclaim
My coming, and the swarming of the bees.
These are my heralds, and behold! my name
Is written in blossoms on the hawthorn-trees.
I tell the mariner when to sail the seas;
I waft o'er all the land from far away
The breath and bloom of the Hesperides,
My birthplace. I am Maia. I am May.






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