You that in love find luck and abundance And live in lust and joyful jollity, Arise for shame! Do away your sluggardy! Arise, I say, do May some observance! Let me in bed lie dreaming in mischance; Let me remember the haps most unhappy That me betide in May most commonly, As one whom love list little to avance. Sephame said true that my nativity Mischanced was with the ruler of the May: He guessed, I prove, of that the verity. In May my wealth and eke my life, I say, Have stond so oft in such perplexity: Rejoice! Let me dream of your felicity. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MERCY OF LAZARUS by STEPHEN DOBYNS PLACE FOR A THIRD by ROBERT FROST FRAGMENTS WRITTEN WHILE TRAVELING...A MIDWESTERN HEAT WAVE by JAMES GALVIN TO MARY CHURCH TERRELL - LECTURER by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON |