The nearest Dream recedes - unrealized - The Heaven we chase, Like the June Bee - before the School Boy, Invites the Race - Stoops - to an easy Clover - Dips - evades - teases - deploys - Then - to the Royal Clouds Lifts his light Pinnace - Heedless of the Boy - Staring - bewildered - at the mocking sky - Homesick for steadfast Honey - Ah, the Bee flies not That brews that rare variety! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FIESOLAN IDYL by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR THRENOS by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY GREENES FUNERALLS: SONNET 8 by RICHARD BARNFIELD PSALM 55 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE SONNET TO - -. by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT A FRIENDLY EXPOSTULATION, CONCERNING THE REDEMPTION OF MANKIND by JOHN BYROM |