Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume V. Nature. 1904. | | | | III. The Seasons | | Summer Longings | | Denis Florence Mac Carthy (1817–1882) |
| | | AH! my heart is weary waiting, | |
| Waiting for the May,— | |
| Waiting for the pleasant rambles | |
| Where the fragrant hawthorn-brambles, | |
| With the woodbine alternating, | 5 |
| Scent the dewy way. | |
| Ah! my heart is weary waiting, | |
| Waiting for the May. | |
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| Ah! my heart is sick with longing, | |
| Longing for the May,— | 10 |
| Longing to escape from study | |
| To the young face fair and ruddy, | |
| And the thousand charms belonging | |
| To the summer’s day. | |
| Ah! my heart is sick with longing, | 15 |
| Longing for the May. | |
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| Ah! my heart is sore with sighing, | |
| Sighing for the May,— | |
| Sighing for their sure returning, | |
| When the summer beams are burning, | 20 |
| Hopes and flowers that, dead or dying, | |
| All the winter lay. | |
| Ah! my heart is sore with sighing, | |
| Sighing for the May. | |
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| Ah! my heart is pained with throbbing, | 25 |
| Throbbing for the May,— | |
| Throbbing for the seaside billows, | |
| Or the water-wooing willows; | |
| Where, in laughing and in sobbing, | |
| Glide the streams away. | 30 |
| Ah! my heart, my heart is throbbing, | |
| Throbbing for the May. | |
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| Waiting sad, dejected, weary, | |
| Waiting for the May: | |
| Spring goes by with wasted warnings,— | 35 |
| Moonlit evenings, sunbright mornings,— | |
| Summer comes, yet dark and dreary | |
| Life still ebbs away; | |
| Man is ever weary, weary, | |
| Waiting for the May! | 40 | | | |
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