Flower Pieces and other poems By William Allingham: With two designs by Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
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V. HAWTHORN.
A green world, prankt with flow'rs, and fill'd with songs;
And if our woodlands have their own May-Queen,
Surely to thee, fair May, this crown belongs,
With cluster'd pearls upon thy robe of green,
And broideries of white bloom; or all one sheen
Thou and thy maidens, worshipp'd by the throngs
In various verdure—tho' sad Yew is seen
Still with the black cloak round his ancient wrongs.
And if our woodlands have their own May-Queen,
Surely to thee, fair May, this crown belongs,
With cluster'd pearls upon thy robe of green,
And broideries of white bloom; or all one sheen
Thou and thy maidens, worshipp'd by the throngs
In various verdure—tho' sad Yew is seen
Still with the black cloak round his ancient wrongs.
Soft winds o'er sunlit grass bear news of thee.
Blue, darkening, feels the moonrise. Then, elate,
Thy coaxing Nightingales whose love is great
For thee, sweet Thorn, not sharp as feign'd to be,
Call hearts and lips—how loth to separate!—
Into the shadow of the trysting-tree.
Blue, darkening, feels the moonrise. Then, elate,
Thy coaxing Nightingales whose love is great
For thee, sweet Thorn, not sharp as feign'd to be,
Call hearts and lips—how loth to separate!—
Into the shadow of the trysting-tree.
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