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PWB Peeps Open Thread: Poetry of Tennyson [1]

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Date: 2025-04-25

The May Queen

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear.

Tomorrow ’ill be the happiest time of all the glad new year.

Of all the glad new year, mother, the maddest, merriest day,

For I’m to be Queen o’ the May, mother, I’m to be Queen o’ the May.

There’s many a black black eye, they say, but none so bright as mine;

There’s Margaret and May, there’s Kate and Caroline;

But none so fair as little Alice, in all the land they say,

So I’m to be Queen o’ the May, mother, I’m to be Queen o’ the May.

I sleep so sound all night, mother, that I shall never wake,

If you do not call me loud when the day begins to break:

But I must gather knots of flowers, and buds and garlands gay,

For I’m to be Queen o’ the May, mother, I’m to be Queen o’ the May.

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The honeysuckle round the porch has wov’n its wavy bowers,

And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers;

And the wild marsh-marigold shines like fire in swamps and hollows gray,

And I’m to be Queen o’ the May, mother, I’m to be Queen o’ the May.

The night-winds come and go, mother, upon the meadow-grass

And the happy stars above them seem to brighten as they pass;

There will not be a drop of rain the whole of the livelong day,

And I’m to be Queen o’ the May, mother, I’m to be Queen o’ the May.

All the valley, mother, ‘ill be fresh and green and still,

And the cowslip and the crowfoot are over all the hill,

And the rivulet in the flowery dale ‘ill merrily glance and play,

For I’m to be Queen o’ the May, mother, I’m to be Queen o’ the May.

So you must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear,

Tomorrow ’ill be the happiest time of all the glad new-year;

Tomorrow ’ill be of all the year the maddest merriest day,

For I’m to be Queen o’ the May, mother, I’m to be Queen o’ the May.

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