VIII
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
· (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of The May Queen
The honeysuckle round the porch has wov'n its wavy bowers,
And by the meadowtrenches blow the faint sweet cuckooflowers;
And the wild marshmarigold 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.