In May
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Publication Information
Published in Lyrics of Love and Laughter (1903)
Performed by Herbert Woodward Martin
Musical Settings
Alice Barnett, In May (voice and piano) (January 1925)
Recommended Citation
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, "In May" (1903). Dunbar Music Archive. 149.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/dunbar/149
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Oh to have you in May,
To talk with you under the trees,
Dreaming throughout the day,
Drinking the wine-like breeze,
Oh it were sweet to think
That May should be ours again,
Hoping it not, I shrink,
Out of the sight of men.
May brings the flowers to bloom,
It brings the green leaves to the tree,
And the fatally sweet perfume,
Of what you once were to me.