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The Little Book of Modern Verse; a Selection from the Work of Contemporaneous American Poets
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May Is Building Her House. [Richard Le Gallienne]
May is building her house. With apple blooms
She is roofing over the glimmering rooms;
Of the oak and the beech hath she builded its beams,
And, spinning all day at her secret looms,
With arras of leaves each wind-swayed wall
She pictureth over, and peopleth it all
With echoes and dreams,
And singing of streams.
May is building her house. Of petal and blade,
Of the roots of the oak, is the flooring made,
With a carpet of mosses and lichen and clover,
Each small miracle over and over,
And tender, traveling green things strayed.
Her windows, the morning and evening star,
And her rustling doorways, ever ajar
With the coming and going
Of fair things blowing,
The thresholds of the four winds are.
May is building her house. From the dust of things
She is making the songs and the flowers and the wings;
From October’s tossed and trodden gold
She is making the young year out of the old;
Yea: out of winter’s flying sleet
She is making all the summer sweet,
And the brown leaves spurned of November’s feet
She is changing back again to spring’s.
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Chicago:
Jessie Belle Rittenhouse, "May Is Building Her House. [Richard Le Gallienne]," The Little Book of Modern Verse; a Selection from the Work of Contemporaneous American Poets, ed. Keil, Heinrich, 1822-1894 and trans. Seaton, R. C. in The Little Book of Modern Verse; a Selection from the Work of Contemporaneous American Poets (New York: George E. Wood, 1850), Original Sources, accessed October 31, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=8MZQ4E2C58VUH9T.
MLA:
Rittenhouse, Jessie Belle. "May Is Building Her House. [Richard Le Gallienne]." The Little Book of Modern Verse; a Selection from the Work of Contemporaneous American Poets, edited by Keil, Heinrich, 1822-1894, and translated by Seaton, R. C., in The Little Book of Modern Verse; a Selection from the Work of Contemporaneous American Poets, New York, George E. Wood, 1850, Original Sources. 31 Oct. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=8MZQ4E2C58VUH9T.
Harvard:
Rittenhouse, JB, 'May Is Building Her House. [Richard Le Gallienne]' in The Little Book of Modern Verse; a Selection from the Work of Contemporaneous American Poets, ed. and trans. . cited in 1850, The Little Book of Modern Verse; a Selection from the Work of Contemporaneous American Poets, George E. Wood, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 31 October 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=8MZQ4E2C58VUH9T.
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