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Poems

Chapter 62: MAY IN FEBRUARY
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A varied collection of lyric and narrative verse that moves between short songs, sonnets, rondels, and longer meditative pieces. Many poems use pastoral and seasonal imagery to celebrate fields, harvest, and the sensory life of the natural world while also acknowledging the hardships and dignity of rural labor. Recurring themes include love, absence, memory, and spiritual longing, treated with formal variety and musical language. The tone alternates between celebratory, elegiac, and reflective, blending vivid description with moral and emotional observation.

MAY IN FEBRUARY

When I go a Maying—Maying—
There his wanton wishes go!
Spring, like flowers, to meet me straying....
I must pluck them—will, or no!
I must break each pale stalk slender:
I must lift each flower fair;
For I know they are the tender
Thoughts of love that greet me there....

I will wear them on my bosom....
In the night, when he comes home
He shall see his thoughts in blossom,
Oh Beloved Spring-time,
Come!