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Pastimes : May Day, also known as Beltane -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Ilaine who wrote (707)4/29/1999 1:58:00 PM
From: jbe  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 2063
 
More Beltane poetry: "Love in the Valley" -- under a beech tree!

Courtesy George Meredith.

Under yonder beech-tree single on the green-sward,
Couch'd with her arms behind her golden head,
Knees and tresses folded to slip and ripple idly,
Lies my young love sleeping in the shade.
Had I the heart to slide an arm beneath her,
Press her parting lips as her waist I gather slow,
Waking in amazement she could not but embrace me:
Then would she hold me and never let me go?
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O the golden sheaf, the rustling treasure-armful!
O the nutbrown tresses nodding interlaced!
O the treasure-tresses one another over
Nodding! O the girdle slack about the waist!
Slain are the poppies that shot their random scarlet
Quick amid the wheat-ears; wound about the waist,
Gather'd, see these brides of Earth one blush of ripeness!
O the nutbrown tresses nodding interlaced!


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Has this whetted your appetite for the full poem (it is five pages long, and quite campy)? ;-)) If so, proceed to:

bartleby.com