May / H. Cordelia Ray

from The Procession of the Seasons

Sophie Anderson (1823-1903), Take the Fair Face

 of Women...Public domain, Wikimedia Commons

May 

Sweet winsome May, coy pensive fay,
     Comes garlanded with lily bells,
And apple blooms shed incense through the bow'r,
     To be her dow'r;
     While through the leafy dells
     A wondrous concert swells
To welcome May, the dainty fay.

~~
H. Cordelia Ray (1852-1916)
from Poems, 1910

[Poem is in the public domain worldwide]

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