Fifty Shades of May: 50 of the best poems about the month of May

Written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Blake and 8 more

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe and Shyama Perara

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

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Jan 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781803543963