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• Song on May Morning

  Now the bright morning star, day’s harbinger,
  Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her
  The flowery May, who from her green lap throws …

  John Milton

• Spring in Carolina

  Spring, with that nameless pathos in the air
  Which dwells with all things fair,
  Spring, with her golden suns and silver rain, …

  Henry Timrod

• “Die down, O dismal day”

  Die down, O dismal day, and let me live;
  And come, blue deeps, magnificently strewn
  With colored clouds,—large, light, and fugitive,— …

  David Gray

• Morning in May

  From “The Canterbury Pilgrims: The Knightes Tale”
  THE BUSY 1 larke, messager of daye,
  Salueth in hire song the morwe graye; …

  Geoffrey Chaucer

• Betrothed Anew

  The Sunlight fills the trembling air,
  And balmy days their guerdons bring;
  The Earth again is young and fair, …

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

• The Ploughman

  Clear the brown path to meet his coulter’s gleam!
  Lo! on he comes, behind his smoking team,
  With toil’s bright dew-drops on his sunburnt brow, …

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• “They come! the merry summer months”

  They come! the merry summer months of beauty, song, and flowers;
  They come! the gladsome months that bring thick leafiness to bowers.
  Up, up, my heart! and walk abroad; fling cark and care aside; …

  William Motherwell

• Song of the Summer Winds

  Up the dale and down the bourne,
  O’er the meadow swift we fly;
  Now we sing, and now we mourn, …

  George Darley

• A Drop of Dew

  SEE how the orient dew,
  Shed from the bosom of the morn
  Into the blowing roses, …

  Andrew Marvell

• The Story of a Summer Day

  O Perfect Light, which shaid away
  The darkness from the light,
  And set a ruler o’er the day, …

  Alexander Hume

• “Knee-deep in June”

  I.
  tell you what I like the best—
  ’Long about knee-deep in June, …

  James Whitcomb Riley

• Ballade of Midsummer Days and Nights

  With a ripple of leaves and a tinkle of streams
  The full world rolls in a rhythm of praise,
  And the winds are one with the clouds and beams— …

  William Ernest Henley

• Invocation to Rain in Summer

  O Gentle, gentle summer rain,
  Let not the silver lily pine,
  The drooping lily pine in vain …

  William Cox Bennett

• Rain in Summer

  How beautiful is the rain!
  After the dust and heat,
  In the broad and fiery street, …

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• Signs of Rain

  Forty Reasons for Not Accepting an Invitation of a Friend to Make an Excursion with Him 1
  1 THE HOLLOW winds begin to blow;
  2 The clouds look black, the glass is low, …

  Dr. Edward Jenner

• Summer Storm

  UNTREMULOUS in the river clear,
  Toward the sky’s image, hangs the imaged bridge;
  So still the air that I can hear …

  James Russell Lowell

• After the Rain

  The Rain has ceased, and in my room
  The sunshine pours an airy flood;
  And on the church’s dizzy vane …

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

• Rain

  More than the wind, more than the snow,
  More than the sunshine, I love rain:
  Whether it droppeth soft and low, …

  Ebenezer Jones

• The Dancing of the Air

  And now behold your tender nurse, the air,
  And common neighbor that aye runs around,
  How many pictures and impressions fair …

  Sir John Davies

• Wicklow Winds

  From “Wicklow”
  YES, this is Wicklow; round our feet
  And o’er our heads its woodlands smile; …

  George Francis Savage-Armstrong

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