This is May from Book ii.; and afterwards, in the third book, the months from Spring to Summer—

My own month came;

'Twas a sunrise of blossoming and May.

Beneath a flowering laurel thicket lay

Sordello; each new sprinkle of white stars

That smell fainter of wine than Massic jars

Dug up at Baiæ, when the south wind shed

The ripest, made him happier.

Not any strollings now at even-close

Down the field path, Sordello! by thorn-rows