Our Gregorian calendar is in full and rampant mood as the palette continues to build and energise the landscape and the natural world. Thrilling, vibrant shades and hues of green lead the way.
01 - Fifty Shades of May - An Introduction
02 - Ode Composed on a May Morning by William Wordsworth
03 - Evening in May by Francis Ledwidge
04 - Song on May Morning by John Milton
05 - May Night by Sara Teasdale
06 - The Young May Moon by Thomas Moore
07 - Corinna's Going A Maying by Robert Herrick
08 - May Day by Edith Nesbit
09 - Late Spring by Henry van Dyke
10 - A Song of Spring by Katharine Tynan
11 - To the Daisy by William Wordsworth
12 - Song. The Flowers of the Spring That Enamel the Vale by Henry James Pye
13 - May Song by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
14 - The Primrose by John Donne
15 - The Argument of the Hesperides by Robert Herrick
16 - A Calender of Sonnets - May by Helen Hunt Jackson
17 - A Nuptial Verse to Mistress Elizabeth Lee, Now Lady Tracy by Robert Herrick
18 - May by Israel Zangwill
19 - Next Years Spring by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
20 - The Merry Month of May by Thomas Dekker
21 - My Darling Dear, My Daisy Flower by John Skelton
22 - Song to a Fair Young Lady Going Out of the Town in the Spring by John Dryden
23 - May by Sara Teasdale
24 - On a Faded Violet by Percy Bysshe Shelley
25 - I So Like Spring by Charlotte Mew
26 - The First Cuckoo by Radclyffe Hall
27 - The Thrush's Nest by John Clare
28 - The Promise of the Hawthorn by Algernon Charles Swinburne
29 - I Have a Bird in Spring by Emily Dickinson
30 - Four Songs For Four Seasons by Algernon Charles Swinburne (May)
31 - On the Wye in May by Amy Levy
32 - In Praise of May by Akiko Yosano
33 - Constantinople by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
34 - In Springtime by Rudyard Kipling
35 - In May by William Henry Davies
36 - Ode on the Spring by Thomas Gray
37 - It is Not Always May by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
38 - The Echoing Green by William Blake
39 - Noon Day Elegiacs by T W Rolleston
40 - Winds of May That Dance on the Sea by James Joyce
41 - Rain Music by Joseph Semon Cotter
42 - May Magnificat by Gerard Manley Hopkins
43 - In the Fields by Charlotte Mew
44 - May 1915 Charlotte Mew
45 - May 1917 by John Jay Thompson
46 - Spring Offensive by Wilfred Owen
47 - May 1918 by John Jay Chapman
48 - Over the May Hill by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
49 - Virtue by George Herbert
50 - The End of May by William Morris
51 - May-Day by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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