MAY.
Thisis the laughing-eyed amongst them all:My lady’s month. A season of young things.She rules the light with harmony, and bringsThe year’s first green upon the beeches tall.How often, where long creepers wind and fallThrough the deep woods in noonday wanderings,I’ve heard the month, when she to echo sings,I’ve heard the month make merry madrigal.How often, bosomed in the breathing strongOf mosses and young flowerets, have I lainAnd watched the clouds, and caught the sheltered song—Which it were more than life to hear again—Of those small birds that pipe it all day longNot far from Marly by the memoried Seine.
Thisis the laughing-eyed amongst them all:My lady’s month. A season of young things.She rules the light with harmony, and bringsThe year’s first green upon the beeches tall.How often, where long creepers wind and fallThrough the deep woods in noonday wanderings,I’ve heard the month, when she to echo sings,I’ve heard the month make merry madrigal.How often, bosomed in the breathing strongOf mosses and young flowerets, have I lainAnd watched the clouds, and caught the sheltered song—Which it were more than life to hear again—Of those small birds that pipe it all day longNot far from Marly by the memoried Seine.
Thisis the laughing-eyed amongst them all:My lady’s month. A season of young things.She rules the light with harmony, and bringsThe year’s first green upon the beeches tall.How often, where long creepers wind and fallThrough the deep woods in noonday wanderings,I’ve heard the month, when she to echo sings,I’ve heard the month make merry madrigal.
Thisis the laughing-eyed amongst them all:
My lady’s month. A season of young things.
She rules the light with harmony, and brings
The year’s first green upon the beeches tall.
How often, where long creepers wind and fall
Through the deep woods in noonday wanderings,
I’ve heard the month, when she to echo sings,
I’ve heard the month make merry madrigal.
How often, bosomed in the breathing strongOf mosses and young flowerets, have I lainAnd watched the clouds, and caught the sheltered song—Which it were more than life to hear again—Of those small birds that pipe it all day longNot far from Marly by the memoried Seine.
How often, bosomed in the breathing strong
Of mosses and young flowerets, have I lain
And watched the clouds, and caught the sheltered song—
Which it were more than life to hear again—
Of those small birds that pipe it all day long
Not far from Marly by the memoried Seine.