MAY

Rated Subjects: Month, Spring

1. As it fell upon a day
   In the merry month of May,
   Sitting in a pleasant shade
   Which a grove of myrtles made.—RICHARD BARNFIELD, Address to the Nightingales

2. Which May had painted with his softe showers
   This garden full of leaves and of flowers.—CHAUCER, Canterbury Tales

3. Hard, is his herte that loveth nought in May.—CHAUCER, The Romaunt of the Rose

4. What potent blood hath modest May!—EMERSON, May-Day

5. There was no month but May.—GEORGE HERBERT, Affliction

6. Oh! that we two were Maying.—CHARLES KINGSLEY, The Saint's Tragedy

7. The hawthorne-scented dusks of May.—DON MARQUIS, An Open Fire

8. As tall as a May-pole.—Proverb

9. Be sure of hay till the end of May.—Proverb

10. A May flood never did good.—Proverb

11. No doubt they rose up early to observe
    The rite of May.—SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer-Night's Dream
    

12. When May, with cowslip-braided locks,
    Walks through the land in green attire.—BAYARD TAYLOR, The Lost May
    

13. God riper the wines and corn, I say,
    And wenches for the marriage-day,
    And boys to teach love's comely play.
    By Goddes fay, by Goddes fay!
    It is the month, the jolly month,
    It is the jolly month of May.—FRANCIS THOMPSON, A May Burden