Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO MAY, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE


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TO MAY, by                    
First Line: May, like a maiden soft and fair
Last Line: A glimpse of what thy love might be!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love; Spring; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The


MAY, like a maiden soft and fair,
With pink-white blossoms in her hair,
Trippingly foots the verdant mead,
Conscious of none, so all take heed.

To her wend lovers, old and young,
With hearts new-kindled and lyres new-strung,
To list once more her sweet command,
And crave some boon at her fair hand.

The Cuckoo clamours down the wind
To every listener he can find;
And little birds, from brake and bough,
Her, Queen of all the months, allow.

The Chestnut and the Hawthorn vie
Whose blossoms shall outmatch the sky,
Where soft and fleecy clouds unfold
New realms of wonder spann'd with gold.

Now mounts the Lark his spiral throne
To wing the firmament alone,
And flood the hollow vault of Heaven
With music not to mortals given.

Maiden of Months! to thee I bring
This simple tribute of the Spring—
Content, if in thy smiles I see
A glimpse of what thy love might be!





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