![Queen Guinevre’s Maying by John Collier [1900]](https://quest.litrasaurus.com/q/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/20200501-May-Books-00-200x300.jpg)
THERE is May in books forever;
May will part from Spenser never;
May’s in Milton, May’s in Prior,
May’s in Chaucer, Thomson, Dyer;
May’s in all the Italian books:–
She has old and modern nooks,
Where she sleeps with nymphs and elves,
In happy places they call shelves,
And will rise and dress your rooms
With a drapery thick with blooms.
Come, ye rains, then if ye will,
May’s at home, and with me still;
But come rather, thou, good weather,
And find us in the fields together.
James Leigh Hunt
(1754 – 1859)
This beautiful image is
“Queen Guinevre’s Maying”
by John Collier [1900]