National Poetry Month, Day 2

I usually teach Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in the autumn, and this bit has always spoken to me of the year drawing to a close, of time hastening onwards and things left undone -- but I think it works just as well in the spring.

( From Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Fitt 2, lines 497-535 )

( A modern English translation, by Marie Boroff )