May (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
A green-thatched cottage was May's sweet home With velvet moss for a floor, And a clambering vine in the gay sunshine, And a ...
A green-thatched cottage was May's sweet home With velvet moss for a floor, And a clambering vine in the gay sunshine, And a ...
Led by the jocund train of vernal hoursAnd vernal airs, uprose the gentle May;Blushing she rose, and blushing rose the ...
"O! charming May!"That's what they say.The saying is not new,--The saying is not true;-- O! May!Bare fields and icebound streams,Sunshine in ...
Construction sets a mighty maypole upCloud-touching tip, base held in granite cup.Instead of romping girls and shouting boys,Damned drilling din ...
Behind the tree, behind the house, behind the starsIn the presence that I cannot seeOtherwise than as house and stars ...
Stand aside, Sir, I pray- Let your wife, Sir, have her way, What d'you mean by thus interposing? I hope, Sir, I can ...
ACROSS our universe of steady stars,Of maypole planets tethered to the sun, Sometimes a wonder flies.And this is dizzying-this is perfection:Importunate ...
High on a gorgeous seat, that far out-shoneHenley's gilt tub, or Flecknoe's Irish throne,Or that where on her Curlls the ...
Trembling Creation's omnipresent sun,Immanent Harmonist, Whose rhythms run.Alike where midge pursues his swift romance,Or grave stars cluster for their midnight ...
Tom Hill was in the saddle,One bright November morn,The echoing glades of Guiting WoodWere ringing with his horn.The diamonds of ...
Elf-blooded creature, little did he reck Of this blind world's delights,Content to wreathe his legs around his neck ...
And your sunny years with a gracious wife Have brought you a daughter dear. "I watched her to-day; a more ...
MOORING POSTS 1 The mooring posts marked on the South Leeds map Of 1908 still line the Aire's side, huge, ...
THE WALK TO THE PARADISE GARDENS 1 Bonfire Night beckoned us to the bridge By Saint Hilda's where we started ...
Preethee stand still awhile, and view this tree Renown'd and honour'd for antiquitie By all the neighbour twiggs; for such ...
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