HERE LIES THE BLITHE SPRING

by: Thomas Dekker

ERE lies the blithe Spring,

Who first taught birds to sing,

Yet in April herself fell a-crying:

Then May growing hot,

A sweating sickness she got,

And the first of June lay a-dying.

 

Yet no month can say,

But her merry daughter May

Stuck her coffins with flowers great plenty:

The cuckoo sung in verse

An epitaph o'er her hearse,

But assure you the lines were not dainty.

• Thomas Dekker - A biography of the Elizabethan dramatist.
• Thomas Dekker - A biography of the Elizabethan dramatist and analysis of his works.
• Thomas Dekker (1570-1632) - Biography of the English playwright, plus links to purchase all of his works currently in print.
• Elizabethan Playhouses, Actors, and Audiences - An overview of Elizabethan theatre; covers regulation and licensing of plays, objections to playhouses, companies of actors, and composition and ownership of plays.
• Purchase books by Thomas Dekker