Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BUCOLIC COMEDY: COUNTRY COUSIN: VARIATION 2, by EDITH SITWELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In summer when the rose-bushes Last Line: The gardener ties in childish posies. Subject(s): Country Life | ||||||||
Song IN summer when the rose-bushes Have names like all the sweetest hushes In a bird's song, -- Susan, Hannah, Martha, Harriet, and Rosannah, My coral neck And my little song Are very extra And very Susie; A little kiss like a gold bee stings My childish life so sweet and rosy . . . Like country clouds of clouted cream The round and flaxen blond leaves seem, And dew in trills And dew in pearls Falls from every gardener's posy; Marguerites, roses, A flaxen lily, Water-chilly, Buttercups where the dew reposes In fact each flower young and silly, The gardener ties in childish posies. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE TARIFF by GEORGE HENRY BOKER A DRIVE IN THE COUNTRY by TED KOOSER THERE IS ALWAYS A LITTLE WIND by TED KOOSER COUNTRYSIDE by JOSEPHINE MILES AN OLD WOMAN: 2. HARVEST by EDITH SITWELL |
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