English Poetry. James Henry Leigh Hunt. May and the Poets. Джеймс Генри Ли Хант.

James Henry Leigh Hunt (Джеймс Генри Ли Хант)

May and the Poets

There is May in books forever;
May will part from Spenser never;
May's in Milton, May's in Prior,
May's in Chaucer, Thomson, Dyer;
May's in all the Italian books:--
She has old and modern nooks,
Where she sleeps with nymphs and elves,
In happy places they call shelves,
And will rise and dress your rooms
With a drapery thick with blooms.
Come, ye rains, then if ye will,
May's at home, and with me still;
But come rather, thou, good weather,
And find us in the fields together. 

James Henry Leigh Hunt’s other poems:

1. Robin Hood, a Child
2. A Thought or Two on Reading Pomfret’s
3. Ariadne Waking
4. To Robert Batty, M.D., on His Giving Me a Lock of Milton’s Hair
5. The Field of Battle

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