Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, JUNE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY


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First Line: O queenly month of indolent repose!
Last Line: All hail the peerless goddess of the year!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): June; Wind


O Queenly month of indolent repose!
I drink thy breath in sips of rare perfume,
As in thy downy lap of clover-bloom
I nestle like a drowsy child and doze
The lazy hours away. The zephyr throws
The shifting shuttle of the Summer's loom
And weaves a damask-work of gleam and gloom
Before thy listless feet. The lily blows
A bugle-call of fragrance o'er the glade;
And, wheeling into ranks, with plume and spear,
Thy harvest-armies gather on parade;
While, faint and far away, yet pure and clear,
A voice calls out of alien lands of shade: --
All hail the Peerless Goddess of the Year!






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