Thomas Dekker Joy Poems

  • 1.
    O THE month of May, the merry month of May,
    So frolic, so gay, and so green, so green, so green!
    O, and then did I unto my true love say,
    Sweet Peg, thou shalt be my Summer's Queen.
    ...
  • 2.
    Fortune smiles, cry holiday,
    Dimples on her cheeks do dwell,
    Fortune frowns, cry welladay,
    Her love is heaven, her hate is hell:
    ...
  • 3.
    HAYMAKERS, rakers, reapers, and mowers,
    Wait on your Summer-queen;
    Dress up with musk-rose her eglantine bowers,
    Daffodils strew the green;
    ...
  • 4.
    Cold's the wind, and wet's the rain,
    Saint Hugh be our good speed ;
    Ill is the weather that bringeth no gain,
    Nor helps good hearts in need.
    ...
  • 5.
    Haymakers, rakers, reapers, and mowers,
    Wait upon your summer queen.
    Dress up with musk-rose her eglantine bowers,
    Daffodils strew the green.
    ...
Total 5 Joy Poems by Thomas Dekker

Top 10 most used topics by Thomas Dekker

Spring 6 Away 6 Love 5 Sweet 5 King 5 I Love You 5 Joy 5 Sleep 5 Drink 4 Pretty 4

Write your comment about Thomas Dekker


Poem of the day

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Poem
A Woman-s Sonnets: Ii
 by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Nay, dear one, ask me not to leave thee yet.
Let me a little longer hold thy hand.
Too soon it is to bid me to forget
The joys I was so late to understand.
The future holds but a blank face for me,
The past is all confused with tears and grey,
But the sweet present, while thy smiles I see,
Is perfect sunlight, an unclouded day.
...

Read complete poem

Popular Poets