Bee! tell me, whence do you come? Ten fields away, twenty perhaps, Have heard your hum. If you are from the north, you may Have passed my mother's roof of straw Upon your way. If you came from the south, you should Have seen a little cottage just Inside a wood. And should you go back that way, please Carry a message to the house Among the trees. Say -- I shall meet her at the rock Beside the stream, this very night At eight o'clock. And ask your queen, when you get home, To send my queen the present of A honeycombe. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE VIRGIN MARY TO THE CHILD JESUS by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING THE WOOING by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR A THUNDERSTORM IN TOWN by THOMAS HARDY UPON HIS SPANIEL [SPANIELL] TRACIE by ROBERT HERRICK AN HYMN IN HONOUR OF BEAUTY by EDMUND SPENSER WATER FOWL by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ST. MARTIN'S WALL by ANTON ALEXANDER VON AUERSPERG |