May

Christina Rossetti * Track #30 On The Poems of Christina G. Rossetti

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Christina Rossetti

1906

May by Christina Rossetti

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Christina Rossetti

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This unusual little poem is a truncated sonnet of thirteen lines — the usual being fourteen — and seems deceptively simple. The first eight lines — known as an octave or octet — deal with the subject of the fleetingness or passing of May, a metaphor for the passing of time and youth and hope. After...

May Annotated

I cannot tell you how it was;
But this I know: it came to pass
Upon a bright and breezy day
When May was young; ah, pleasant May!
As yet the poppies were not born
Between the blades of tender corn;
The last eggs had not hatched as yet,
Nor any bird foregone its mate.
I cannot tell you what it was;
But this I know: it did but pass.
It passed away with sunny May,
With all sweet things it passed away,
And left me old, and cold, and gray.

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