May 26 2008
The Poets: Archibald Lampman : MAY
With one more week left in this month before June is upon us I thought it would be nice to end it off with a poem that celebrates May.
Archibald Lampman was one of Canada’s best 19th century poets who wrote sonnets as well as poems depicting the varied Canadian landscape. In 1895 he was elected to the Royal Society of Canada.
MAY
Lampman, Archibald (1861-1899)
The broad earth smiles in open benison,
An emerald sea, whose waves of leaf and shade
On far-off shores of misty turquoise fade;
And all the host of life steers blithely on,
With joy for captain, fancy at the helm:
The woodpecker taps roundly at his tree,
The vaulting high-ho flings abroad his glee
In fluty laughter from the towering elm.
Here at my feet are violets, and below–
A gracile spirit tremulously alive–
Spring water fills a little greenish pool,
Paved all with mottled leaves and crystal cool.
Beyond it stands a plum-tree in full blow,
Creamy with bloom, and humming like a hive.
Poem is in the public domain.
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