(TO COUNT COSIMO RUCELLAI OF FLORENCE WITH A COPY OF HIS ANCESTOR GIOVANNI RUCELLAI'S POEM "THE BEES") ONCE, when I saw the tears upon your vines You told me they were "weeping" -- but for what? I find their secret in your kinsman's lines: @3They missed the honeyed music he has caught.@1 | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A DOUBLE BALLAD OF GOOD COUNSEL by FRANCOIS VILLON SPRING, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE by WILLIAM BLAKE LINES INSCRIBED UPON A CUP FORMED FROM A SKULL by GEORGE GORDON BYRON TO MARY by GEORGE GORDON BYRON ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF AN UNFORTUNATE LADY by ALEXANDER POPE SONG, WRITTEN AT SEA, IN THE FIRST DUTCH WAR, 1665 ... by CHARLES SACKVILLE (1637-1706) POLITICAL GREATNESS by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY |