Nature
May
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Nature
Hail, May, whose bark puts forth full-sailed
For summer; May, whom Chaucer hailed
With all his happy might of heart,
And gave thy rosebright daisy-tips
Strange fragrance from his amorous lips
That still thine own breath seems to part
And sweeten till each word they say
Is even a flower of flowering May.
Cite this poem
MLA
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “May.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/175/.
Chicago
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “May.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/175/.
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