Fragment: May the Limner
When May is painting with her colours gay The landscape sketched by April her sweet twin...
Percy Bysshe Shelley
When May is painting with her colours gay The landscape sketched by April her sweet twin...
Shelley imagines April and May as a pair of artistic sisters, each with her own role in creating the landscape we see. April comes first, lightly drafting the scene: the bare outlines of trees, the first soft shapes of green.
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