Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO A BEE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE


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TO A BEE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Columbus in velvet, / this afternoon sunny
Last Line: America blooming!
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


COLUMBUS in velvet,
This afternoon sunny
How lyric your voyage
To islands of honey!
To ports full of pollen,
Deliciously looming,
You fly; and my garden's
America blooming!

Campanula belfries
In delicate duty
Proclaim at your coming
The sweet of their beauty;
The pansies are wishing
You momently nearer,
And rosemary voices
Call quicker and clearer.

And sirens are singing
From blossomy stations
Of larkspurs and lilies,
Of musk and carnations.
Till coming of candle
The soul of your labours
Is earnestly kissing
These exquisite neighbours.

The rose in her bounty
Shall fondle and feed you
Till friends in the cottage
Of honeycomb need you;
And yet, if the morrow
Fall fragrant and sunny,
Shall have for unloading
Fresh cargoes of honey.

Columbus in velvet,
Fly hurriedly over
The blossoming beanfield,
The red and white clover,
To find in this garden,
Deliciously looming,
A mainland of honey,
America blooming!





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