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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
APRIL-MAY, by FLOYD DELL First Line: When I was a girl my mother would say Last Line: May—june! | |||
When I was a girl my mother would say, "April—May! These are the months to beware of the moon, May—June! "And the blackbird singing upon the spray, April—May! Beware, my child, of the blackbird's tune." May—June! When I was sixteen no more than a day, April—May! I met a young man in the flush of the noon. May—June! His step was light and his manner was gay, April—May! And he came from afar, by the dust on his shoon. May—June! I looked at him once, and I looked away, April—May! And my heart it asked but a single boon. May—June! "I love you," he said, "for ever and aye!" April—May! For ever and ever—the blackbird's tune! May—June! I could. not leave him or send him away, April—May I So we walked in the wood by the light of the moon. May—June! I had clean forgot what my mother did say, April—May! But I learned it all and I learned it soon. May—June! A blossoming branch in the wind a-sway, April—May! And petals over the grasses strewn. . . . May—June! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BALLAD OF CHRISTOPHER STREET by FLOYD DELL YOUNG WIFE, WAKING by FLOYD DELL SURFACES AND MASKS; 6 by CLARENCE MAJOR BALLADE OF DEAD FRIENDS by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON TWO SONNETS: 2 by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON NIGHTS WITHOUT SLEEP by SARA TEASDALE BROTHERS by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON THREE FRIENDS OF MINE: 5; SONNET by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 13. ENVOI, 1919 by EZRA POUND TO WALTER LIONEL DE ROTHSCHILD ON HIS BAR-MITZVAH by LOUIS BARNETT ABRAHAMS |
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