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“May, queen of blossoms, And fulfilling flowers, With what pretty music Shall we charm the hours? Wilt thou have pipe and reed, Blown in the open mead? Or to the lute give heed In the green bowers.”

Giving May Hours Flower Green Queens Charm Fulfilling Pipe Heed Reeds Mead May Day Spring May

Author:Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow

“Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.”

May Action Courses Causes Virtue Effects Judging Source Spring Mere Deeds Smallest Spring May

Author:Alexander Pope

“When May, with cowslip-braided locks, Walks through the land in green attire. And burns in meadow-grass the phlox His torch of purple fire: And when the punctual May arrives, With cowslip-garland on her brow, We know what once she gave our lives, And cannot give us now!”

Knows Giving May Walks Fire Our Lives Land Green Grass Locks Purple Brows Torches Meadows Garlands Punctual Attire May Day Spring May

Book:The Poetical Works of Bayard Taylor

Source: The Poetical Works of Bayard Taylor

“Primroses, the Spring may love them; Summer knows but little of them.”

Knows May Littles Summer Spring Spring May

Book:The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England