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First Line: Peerless yet hapless maid of q!
Last Line: Her dirge and leg
Subject(s): Alphabets;bees;death;funerals;insects;language; "beekeeping;dead, The;burials;bugs;words;vocabulary;


A BEE-KEEPER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When bees come hither in the fair springtide
Last Line: The neighbour of the mountain-peak is dead
Subject(s): Bees;insects; Beekeeping;bugs


A BLACK PATCH ON LUCASTA'S FACE (1), by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dull as I was, to think that a court fly
Last Line: But the sweet little bees large monument.
Subject(s): Bees; Faces; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


A FABLE, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Said a little boy to a honey bee
Last Line: Said the honey bee to the little boy.
Subject(s): Bees; Boys; Fables; Insects; Play; Beekeeping; Allegories; Bugs


A MORE ANCIENT MARINER, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The swarthy bee is a buccaneer
Last Line: With the mercury at zero.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


A NATURE-LOVER PASSES, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bees, go tell the things he treasured
Last Line: Bid his loved wild things befriend him!
Subject(s): Bees; Death; Insects; Beekeeping; Dead, The; Bugs


A SONG OF A GARDEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What a thing a garden is
Last Line: To bid grow, to increase!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Animals; Bees; Birds; Dreams; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Herbs; Insects; Medicine; Quiet Life; Beekeeping; Nightmares; Bugs; Drugs, Prescription


A SUMMER NIGHT IN THE BEEHIVE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The little bee returns with evening's gloom
Last Line: Another day of honey has begun!
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


A TIME OF BEES, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All day my husband pounds on the upstairs porch
Subject(s): Bees; Marriage; Beekeeping; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


AFFINITY FOR BEES, by VIRGINIA MCGUIRE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lark liked to be barefoot in the garden
Last Line: To be intimate with roses
Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Insects; Roses


AGAINST IDLENESS AND MISCHIEF, by ISAAC WATTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How doth the little busy bee / improve each shining hour
Last Line: Some good account at last.
Variant Title(s): The Busy Bee
Subject(s): Bees; Children; Insects; Beekeeping; Childhood; Bugs


ALLEGORY OF THE BEES, by PAUL LAKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Affectless drones, observing the wild dance
Last Line: While honey-drudgers leave in steady lines %tracking the legend to tis honeyed source
Subject(s): Bees; Honeycombs; Insects; Nature


AMPHITYRON, OR THE TWO SOSIAS: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The laboring bee, when his sharp sting is gone
Last Line: To make fine fools of you, and all your parts.
Subject(s): Bees; Fame; Insects; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Beekeeping; Reputation; Bugs; Dramatists; Stage Life


ANCESTRY, by NANCY BAILEY MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In tiny adelstrop still buzz the bees
Last Line: And honey crystallizes on the shelf to tease
Subject(s): Bees; Honey; Insects


ANIMAL, VEGETABLE AND MINERAL, by LOUISE BOGAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On gypsum slabs of preternatural whiteness
Last Line: Impatiens roylei walpers acts the same
Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs.
Subject(s): Flowers; Bees; Pollination; Cambridge, Massachusetts


APIARY 40, by CAROL FROST    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The humble sense of being alive
Subject(s): Bees; Beekeeping


APIARY IX, by CAROL FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two anthills and a late summer hive
Subject(s): Bees; Beekeeping


ARIEL'S SONG (2), FR. THE TEMPEST, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the bee sucks, there suck I
Last Line: Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Subject(s): Bees; Fairies; Insects; Love; Beekeeping; Elves; Bugs


ARRIVAL OF THE BEE BOX, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I ordered this, this clean wood box
Last Line: The box is only temporary
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


ARRIVAL OF THE BEE BOX, by DENNIS SCHMITZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: I ordered this, this clean wood box
Last Line: The box is only temporary
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


ATHOLE BROSE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Willie an' I cam doun by blair
Last Line: And in by tullibardine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Bees; Gardens & Gardening; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


AWAKENING, by WILLIAM WANTLING    Poem Source                    
First Line: I found the bee as it fumbled about the ground
Last Line: I stared, I was appalled, I was overwhelmed %with responsibility, and I knew not where to %begin
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


BACK THEY SPUTTER, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Back they sputter like the fires of love, the bees to their broken home
Subject(s): Bees; Beekeeping


BAGATELLES: 1, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wanton bee that suck'd the rose
Last Line: Beyond the dying day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Love; Roses; Beekeeping; Bugs


BALLADE OF THE BEES OF TREBIZOND, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There blooms a flower in trebizond
Last Line: To taste that honey is to die.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


BAZOOKA, by WILLIAM HARMON    Poem Source                    
First Line: A bee is busy as can be with its
Last Line: Worth less than many a tepid epitaph
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Reason


BEE, by ENRIQUE ALVAREZ HENAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wee sovereign of the forest dense and gray
Last Line: And white wax for the tapers of the dead
Subject(s): Bees; Forests; Honey; Insects


BEE, by JOHN FANDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: A zig-zag bee, zzz and zzz-ing, came
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


BEE, by HENRY HAWKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: To bethlehem's silly shed, methinks I see %the virgin hasten like a busy bee
Last Line: She was the bee, the hive her sacred womb
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


BEE AND THE LILY, by THOMAS WESTWOOD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Buzz! Went the bee, with a merry din
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


BEE IN AMBER, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of his life's labors as a collector
Alternate Author Name(s): Martial
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


BEE MEETING, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who are these people at the bridge to meet me? They are the
Last Line: Whose is that long white box in the grove, what have they %acoomplished, why am I cold
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bees; Fear; Insects


BEE SETS SAIL, by KATHARINE DUNCAN MORSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wind blows east, the wind blows storm
Subject(s): Animals; Bees; Insects


BEE SONG, by DIANE JARVENPA    Poem Source                    
First Line: We lie in a maze of bee clover
Last Line: Wild %bee %sighs
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


BEE! I'M EXPECTING YOU!, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or better, be with me, %yours, fly
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1035; Poem: 98
Subject(s): Animals; Bees; Imagination; Insects


BEE'S BURIAL, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Encased & shining in a bead of amber
Last Line: Coffined in honey - as any bee could wish
Alternate Author Name(s): Martial
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


BEE, THE ANT, AND THE SPARROW, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My dears, 'tis said in days of old
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Sparrows


BEE-MASTER, by VICTORIA MARY SACKVILLE-WEST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep
Alternate Author Name(s): Nicholson, Harold, Mrs.; Sackville-west, Vita
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


BEE; TO GRANCIS DE MIOMANDRE, by PAUL VALERY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What and how keen and mortal soever
Last Line: By that tiniest golden alert %for lack of which love dies orsleeps!
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


BEEKEEPER'S DAUGHTER, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A garden of mouthings. Purple, scarlet-speckled, black
Last Line: Under the coronal of sugar roses %the queen bee marries the winter of your year
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bees; Fathers And Daughters; Insects


BEES, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bees are black, with gilt surcingles
Last Line: Jugs - a universe's fracture %could not jar or spill
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1405; Poem: 142
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


BEES, by KATE FARRELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I took it for years
Last Line: Soft and murmuring %with the hum of wings
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


BEES, by MONK GIBBON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Then to the bees one said
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


BEES, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After a bear ransacked their hive, strewing wood, wax
Last Line: The bees swarmed the locked doors, fireplace screen, floor. The house %hummed
Subject(s): Bees; Honey; Insects; Nature


BEES, by MOTHER GOOSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A swarm of bees in may
Last Line: Is not worth a fly.
Variant Title(s): Hampshire Bee-keeping Rhyme
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


BEES, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every bee
Last Line: And partly %- buzz
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


BEES, by LOLA RIDGE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bees over the gooseberry bushes
Last Line: If you venture so high in the blue air
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawson, David, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


BEES, by JAMES P. SCOFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I had to do it. %they charged and stung the carpenter
Last Line: Conceals and covers us and our congenial sleep
Subject(s): Bees; Death; Flowers; Insects; Murder


BEES, by FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bees don't care about the snow
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


BEES, by SUSAN STEWART    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: That the bees were born in the corpse of the injured animal
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


BEES, by SUSAN STEWART    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That the bees were born in the corpse of the injured animal
Last Line: Into sweetness, and the dark into the sun, and the bees %thus born
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


BEES, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: A man whose arms and shoulders
Subject(s): Bees; Beekeeping


BEES AND MORNING GLORY, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Morning glories, pale as a mist drying
Subject(s): Bees; Morning Glories; Transience; Beekeeping; Impermanence


BEES BEFORE WINTER, by MERRILL MOORE    Poem Source                    
First Line: His bees went very far that night
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


BEES IN CLOVER; A SONG, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up the dewy slopes of morning
Last Line: Falls in tune?
Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


BLIND HUBER (12), by NICK FLYNN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus transfixed, stare blank at one
Last Line: But not as much as I had hoped
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


BROWNY BEE, by IRENE F. PAWSEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Little mr. Browny bee
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


BUCOLIC COMEDY: CLOWN ARGHEB'S SONG, by EDITH SITWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Clown argheb the honey-bee
Last Line: But the pink freezing stars!
Subject(s): Bees


BUMBLE BEE, D. D., by ORTHA L. WILNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beside a haughty fleur-de-lis
Last Line: To the weed of gold.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


BUMBLEBEE, by EDNA D. WOOD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bublebee, I'm sure I like you
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


CALENDAR, by ERIKA MAILMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the cellar she fingers the jars of honey
Last Line: One urges forget me I was never here %and the speaker forgets who spoke
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Seasons; Time


COLOPHON, by DEAN YOUNG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: More than the beetles turned russet,
Subject(s): Bees; Mortality; Beekeeping


DA QUEENA BEE, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Meester, eef you nevva see
Last Line: Evra wan hersal' a queen!
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Babies; Bees; Insects; Infants; Beekeeping; Bugs


EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 16. CUPID HIMSELF STUNG, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Does a bee's sting thus make thee cry and whine?
Last Line: Comes as much short as that compared to thee.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Love; Beekeeping; Bugs


FABLE: THE BEE, THE ANT, AND THE SPARROW, by NATHANIEL COTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My dears, 'tis said in days of old
Last Line: The wicked, wanton sparrow died.
Subject(s): Bees; Fables; Insects; Sparrows; Virtue; Beekeeping; Allegories; Bugs


FABLES: 2ND SER. 10. THE DEGENERATE BEES, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though courts the practice disallow
Last Line: We're honour'd by the virtuous few.
Subject(s): Bees; Corruption In Politics; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


FANNY; OR, THE BEAUTY AND THE BEE, by CHARLES MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fanny, array'd in the bloom of her beauty
Last Line: "go forth and be happy—I blame you no more."
Subject(s): Beauty; Bees; Forgiveness; Insects; Beekeeping; Clemency; Bugs


FESSLER'S BEES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Talkin' bout yer bees,' says ike
Last Line: "fore he went to floridy!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Bees; Honey; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


FIELD OF VISION, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And if the bee, half-drunk
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Bees; Beekeeping


FORTH, MY GALLANT HONEY-BEES!, by LUDVIG HOLSTEIN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


FUSCARA; OR, THE BEE ERRANT, by JOHN CLEVELAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nature's confectioner, the bee
Last Line: The bee committed parricide.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


GEORGICS: BEES, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the mute creation, these alone
Last Line: And poise their bodies thro' the void of air
Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


GOLDEN GLORIES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The buttercup is like a golden cup
Last Line: Sucks from sweet hearts of flowers and stores and sips.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


GOLDEN PULSE, by JOHN MYERS O'HARA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Golden pulse grew on the shore
Last Line: Honey nor the bee.
Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Love – Complaints


HAIKU, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A bee
Last Line: Of the peony
Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


HAPPY WORLD, by WILLIAM BRIGHTY RANDS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bee is a rover
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Matthew; Holbeach, Henry
Variant Title(s): Brown Be
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


HEAD OF A WHITE WOMAN WINKING, by JAMES TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She has one good bumblebee
Subject(s): Bees; Beekeeping


HELIODORA, by MELEAGER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why dost thou touch, o flower-fed bee
Last Line: I knew it long ago.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


HIVES AND HOMES, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When march has gone with his cruel wind
Last Line: When the summer of life is over.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


HOKKU, by WINIFRED WALDRON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bringer of pollen
Last Line: Love is my duty.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Love; Beekeeping; Bugs


HONEY, by RUTH MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The helicopter bee fines down
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


HONEY BEE, HONEY BEE! HERE IS SOME MONEY, by LUCY FITCH PERKINS    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


HONEY HARVEST, by MARTIN DONISTHORPE ARMSTRONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Late in march, when the days are growing longer
Subject(s): Bees; Honey; Insects


HONEYBEE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You do everything, melissa, just the way
Last Line: For money you have a sharp sting
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Love; Love - Complaints; Pentastichs


HORNETS, by JAMES MCCORKLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stunned in the cold morning by the brush
Last Line: And swarm the lamp till it went dark
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Life


HUMM, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is this dark hum among the roses?
Subject(s): Bees; Beekeeping


IMAGINING THE BEES, by PATRICK BIZZARO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have never held anything
Last Line: The net of my smile %nd my wooden eyelids %learn how to dance
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


IN GATINAIS: REPOSE AT NOON, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bee, that the thyme doth sing, how clear thy hum doth ring in the
Last Line: Ear!
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Life; Noon; Beekeeping; Bugs


IN TALL GRASS, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bees and a honeycomb in the dried head of a horse in
Last Line: The bees come home and the bees sleep.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


INAMORATA, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bees were holding levees in the flowers
Last Line: And keep me happy in your pious prayer.
Subject(s): April; Bees; Insects; Love; Beekeeping; Bugs


INCOMPETENT PSYCHEDELIC ROTOGRAVURE, by KIRK ROBERTSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The national spelling bee
Last Line: Like a rat's were yellow
Subject(s): Spelling Bees


INVITATION TO THE BEE, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Child of patient industry
Last Line: Among the flowers, thou little busy bee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


JULIUS CAESAR AND THE HONEY-BEE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Poring on caesar's death with earnest eye
Last Line: I might have set the honey-maker free.
Subject(s): Bees; Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


KILLING THE BEES, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They'd been there for years, secreted in the ceiling
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


KING SOLOMON AND THE BEES; A TALE OF THE TALMUD, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When solomon was reigning in his glory
Last Line: As israel's king learned wisdom from the bees!
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Jews; Sheba, Queen Of (10th Century B.c.); Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Beekeeping; Bugs; Judaism


LIKE TRAINS OF CARS ON TRACKS OF PLUSH, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To vanquish other blooms
Subject(s): Bees


LOOK AT A BEE, by LEA GOLDBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: On a lit-up window square
Last Line: Fear kills. %watch out
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


MARIA'S PURSE, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Maria had an aunt at leeds
Last Line: "admit the insects' greater skill!"
Subject(s): Bees; Girls; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


MERRY BEE, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A golden bee a-cometh
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


MINISTERING BEES, by VIRGINIA TAYLOR MCCORMICK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Think you this topaz powder on the bee
Last Line: Not merely honey drunken debauchees!
Subject(s): Bees; Drinks & Drinking; Insects; Sex; Beekeeping; Wine; Bugs


MOWING, by ROBERT WRIGLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleepy and suburban at dusk,
Subject(s): Mowing & Mowers; Bees; Lawn Mowers; Beekeeping


MY FRIEND MUST BE A BIRD, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Thou puzzlest me!
Subject(s): Birds; Bees


NEITHER NOW, by MOLLY TENENBAUM    Poem Source                    
First Line: All summer I lived in the bees' house
Last Line: A dried petal %in my multiform eye?
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Summer


ODE, by ANACREON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cupid once upon a bed
Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea
Subject(s): Bees; Drinks & Drinking; Beekeeping; Wine


ODE TO THE BEE, by ROBERT FERGUSSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Herds, blythsome tune your canty reeds
Last Line: That lyart time can ne'er impair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert
Subject(s): Bees; Honey; Insects; Praise; Beekeeping; Bugs


ON THE DEATH OF LITTLE MAHALA ASHCRAFT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little haly! Little haly!' cheeps the robin the tree
Last Line: "and the katydids and crickets hollers ""haly!"" all the night."
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Bees; Birds; Death; Grief; Insects; Night; Beekeeping; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bugs; Bedtime


OUR PLAN FOR BEES, by KEVIN CANTWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Clouds tumbling in the wide glass picture window
Last Line: Spark from the chimney's rushing heat above us
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


PEDIGREE OF HONEY (DIFF. VERS.), by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A clover, any time, to him %is aristocracy
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1627 (2); Poem: 165
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


PIGMY SERAPHS - GONE ASTRAY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To subdue the bumblebee
Subject(s): Bees


PODAGER BEGS PARDON OF BIRDS, BEES, AND WINGS IN GENERAL, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pardon me, all ye birds that float at ease
Last Line: A chiding angel, of the smallest wing.
Subject(s): Angels; Bees; Birds; Flight; Insects; Wings; Beekeeping; Flying; Bugs


PRAGMATICS, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In your story of bees
Last Line: A fine, even tremble
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Nature


QUEST, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over crimson clover-seas
Last Line: Such a golden story of honey!
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


SECRET HISTORY OF ROCK'N'ROLL, by ROBERT J. CLAWSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Instead of settling the bole
Last Line: He told the bees ... But no one else
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


SHARD, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After the ravages that took the bees by storm
Variant Title(s): Last Drop
Subject(s): Bees; Honey; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 105, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What does the bee do?
Last Line: Eat up the honey.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): What Do They Do?
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


SINGLE CLOVER PLANK, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Did not so much as wring from him %a wandering 'alas'
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1343; Poem: 129
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


SISYPHUS BEE, by ROBERT WRIGLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I couldn't help it, I nearly fell asleep
Subject(s): Bees; Beekeeping


SONG OF THE QUEEN BEE, by ELWYN BROOKS WHITE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the air is wine and the wind is free
Last Line: That I'll always mate %with whatever drone I encounter
Alternate Author Name(s): White, E. B.
Subject(s): Artificial Insemination; Bees; Insects; Reproduction


SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 50, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was the west wind over the garden
Last Line: You were the blossom that drew me down.
Subject(s): Flowers; Bees


SOUTH WINDS JOSTLE THEM, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Present them here!
Subject(s): Bees; Butterflies; Wind


SPELLING BEE, by JACK DRISCOLL    Poem Source                    
First Line: In sixth grade I won a spelling bee
Last Line: Their little fists %pounding like hearts to get in
Subject(s): Spelling Bees


SPELLING BEE, by SHELBY SILVERSTEIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I got stung by a bee
Last Line: Hello %you've been %stung by a %bee
Alternate Author Name(s): Silverstein, Shel
Subject(s): Spelling Bees


STANZAS SUGGESTED IN A STEAMBOAT OFF ST. BEES' HEAD, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If life were slumber on a bed of down
Last Line: That furthered the first teaching of st. Bees.
Subject(s): St. Bees' Head, England


STINGS, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bare-handed, I hand the combs
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


STINGS, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bare-handed, I hand the combs
Last Line: The mausoleum, the wax house
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


SUFFERING, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I sat down on a bumble bee
Last Line: Humiliating pain.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Pain; Beekeeping; Bugs; Suffering; Misery


SWARM, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somebody is shooting at something in our town
Last Line: Napoleon is pleased, he is pleased with everything. %o europe! O ton of honey!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


SWARMING BEES, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I remember the evening
Last Line: The black & burned and %crawling deathshead of %my youth's old europe!
Subject(s): Bees; Grant, Heber Jedediah (1856-1945); Insects


SWEET HONEY-SUCKING BEES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Was ever dart so sharp ah then you die
Subject(s): Bees;honey;insects; Beekeeping;bugs


TELLING THE BEES, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the old man draws his last breath
Last Line: Wondering which humming body might be his
Subject(s): Bees; Fields; Honey; Insects


TELLING THE BEES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "naiads, and ye pastures cold"
Last Line: Mourn a neighbor and a friend
Subject(s): Bees;insects; Beekeeping;bugs


TELLING THE BEES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here is the place; right over the hill
Last Line: "mistress mary is dead and gone!"
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Mourning; Beekeeping; Bugs; Bereavement


TELLING THE BEES (A COLONIAL CUSTOM), by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bathsheba came out to the sun
Last Line: Telling the bees.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE ARRIVAL OF THE BEE BOX, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I ordered this, this clean wood box
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE BAG OF THE BEE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: About the sweet bag of a bee
Last Line: And gave the bag between them.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE BEE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like trains of cars on tracks of plush
Last Line: Of clovers and of noon!
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE BEE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mark how the neat assiduous bee
Last Line: When smiling youth is past.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE BEE, by SIDNEY LANIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What time I paced, at pleasant morn
Last Line: Tampa, florida, 1877.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE BEE AND THE BLOSSOMS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why stand ye idle, blossoms bright
Last Line: "for what thou takest away!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE BEE MEETING, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who are these people at the bridge to meet me? They are the
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bees; Fear; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE BEE'S WING, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fill, fill to the brim, let the bubble forth swin
Last Line: "along with the ""bee's wing."
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE BEE; AN EPIGRAM: STREPHON TO DELIA, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lovely delia, why so coy?
Last Line: I fear, like bees, he'd raise a swelling.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE BEE; TO GRANCIS DE MIOMANDRE, by PAUL VALERY            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What and how keen and mortal soever
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE BEEKEEPER'S DAUGHTER, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A garden of mouthings. Purple, scarlet-speckled, black
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bees; Fathers & Daughters; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE BEES OF MYDDLETON MANOR; 17TH CENTURY, by MAY PROBYN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Buzzing, buzzing, buzzing, my golden-belted bees
Last Line: Middleton luck it's done and dead.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE BEES' SONG, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thousandz of thornz there be
Last Line: Of far-away zzzee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE BLUEBELL, by MARGARET WADE CAMPBELL DELAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: In love she fell
Last Line: When, lo, he flew away!
Subject(s): Bees; Bluebells; Insects; Love; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE BUMBLEBEE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You better not fool with a bumblebee!
Last Line: "wears out his welcome too quick fer me!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE CAPTIVE BEE; OR THE LITTLE FILCHER, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As julia once a-slumbering lay
Last Line: Hony enough to fill his hive.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE DAVENTRY WONDER; SHOWING HOW FARMER B-LL'S BEES ISSUED ..., by AGRICOLA [PSEUD.]    Poem Text                    
First Line: "now cynthia shone serene, and every star"
Last Line: "let learned macclesfield say what he will, / spite of new style, we'll keep old christmas still"
Alternate Author Name(s): Agricola
Subject(s): Bees;christmas;farm Life;holidays;insects; "beekeeping;nativity, The;agriculture;farmers;bugs;


THE FIRST DAYS, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The first thing I saw in the morning
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Bees; Pear Trees; Beekeeping; Pears


THE GIRL WITH BEES IN HER HAIR, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Came in an envelope with no return address;
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Bees; Fear; Beekeeping


THE GRUMBLING HIVE; OR, KNAVES TURN'D HONEST, by BERNARD MANDEVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A spacious hive well stocked with bees
Last Line: For acorns as for honesty.
Subject(s): Bees; Freedom; Insects; Beekeeping; Liberty; Bugs


THE HEN AND THE HONEY-BEE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "a lazy hen, -- the story goes"
Last Line: Are doing all the useful labor!
Subject(s): Bees;hens;insects;labor & Laborers; Beekeeping;bugs


THE HOMING BEE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You are belted with gold, little brotherb of mine
Last Line: For others, your gold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Metaphor; Nature; Beekeeping; Bugs; Similes


THE HONEY BEE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O bee, goodby
Last Line: No second sting.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE HONEYBEE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You do everything, melissa, just the way
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Love; Love - Complaints; Pentastichs; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE HUMBLE BEE, by CATHERINE ANNE DORSET    Poem Text                    
First Line: Good morrow, gentle humble bee
Last Line: To bliss again!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Catherine Anne
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE HUMBLE-BEE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Burly, dozing humble-bee, / where thou art is clime for me
Last Line: Thy sleep makes ridiculous.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE HUMMING BIRDS, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Green wing and ruby throat
Last Line: Sleeps in this bloom; and, when it falls, they go.
Subject(s): Bees; Heaven; Hummingbirds; Insects; Sleep; Summer; Trees; Beekeeping; Paradise; Bugs


THE IRATE BEE, by IDA L. PADELFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Devilish squirmy spider
Last Line: And push my way clean through.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Spiders; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE LANAWN SHEE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Powdered and perfumed the full bee
Last Line: We two shall move to fairy places.
Subject(s): Bees; Fairies; Happiness; Insects; Ireland; Mythology - Irish; Poppies; Beekeeping; Elves; Joy; Delight; Bugs; Irish


THE LESSON, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother tells little bee
Last Line: Sons of men! Sons of men!
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE LINDENS, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bees in the lindens booming
Last Line: In three days told.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Nature; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE MARCH BEE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A warning wind finds out my resting-place
Last Line: Still listening to the bee, still basking in the sun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Bees; England; Insects; Landscape; Beekeeping; English; Bugs


THE MIRACLE OF THE BEES AND FOXGLOVES, by ANNE STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because hairs on their speckled daybeds baffle the little bees
Subject(s): Foxgloves; Bees; Beekeeping


THE PARLIAMENT OF BEES, by JOHN DAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Abroad, my pretty bees: I hope you'll find
Last Line: From forth our wingèd commonwealth.
Subject(s): Bees; Fantasy; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE PART OF THE BEE'S BODY EMBEDDED IN THE FLESH, by CAROL FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bee-boy, merops apiaster, on sultry thundery days
Subject(s): Bees; Beauty; Beekeeping


THE PEDIGREE OF HONEY , by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is aristocracy
Subject(s): Bees


THE PINEAPPLES AND THE BEE, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The pineapples, in triple row
Last Line: Can gather honey from a weed.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Pineapples; Truth; Wisdom; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE PRESENT: OR THE BAG OF THE BEE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fly to my mistresse, pretty pilfring bee
Last Line: Tole forth my death; next, to my buryall come.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE QUEEN-BEE FLIES, by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: High on the breeze flies the virgin-queen of the hive!
Last Line: With your low, slow song, praising -- praising -- eternity-long!
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE ROSE AND THE BEE, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I were a bee and you were a rose
Last Line: "if you were a bee."
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Roses; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE SECRET OF THE BEES, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How have you managed it? Bright busy bee!
Last Line: And we got our good habits through sheer common-sense.
Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE SONG OF THE MISCHIEVOUS DOG, by DYLAN THOMAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are many who say that a dog has his day
Last Line: And that bees never work in their hives
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Cats; Lobsters; Bees


THE SOUND, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was a boy at this time of year
Last Line: I said, if only I could hear them.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Nature; Sound; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE SPELLING BEE AT ANGELS, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Waltz in, waltz in, ye little kids, and gather round my / knee
Last Line: As they dreamed of angels spelling bee and thought of truthful james.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret
Subject(s): Spelling Bees


THE SPIDER AND THE BEE, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The nymph who walks the public streets
Last Line: By folly your own schemes undo.'
Subject(s): Beauty; Bees; Charm; Desire; Insects; Spiders; Women; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE SPIDER AND THE BEE (A TALE FOR THE TIMES), by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He had closed his volume of theorie
Last Line: This story one tiny superfluous token.
Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Philosophy & Philosophers; Spiders; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE SWARM, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somebody is shooting at something in our town
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Beekeeping; Bugs


THE TAX-GATHERER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And pray, who are you?
Last Line: "have you nothing for me?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Taxes; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE TULIP AND THE LILY, SELECTION, by JAMES BARCLAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: To these proud taunts and more beside
Last Line: "perfumes e'en cloe's fragrant breath."
Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Lilies; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE WHITE BEES, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long ago apollo called to aristaeus
Last Line: Joy and pain of seeking, -- and at last we sleep!
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Bees; Greece; Insects; Paganism & Pagans; Beekeeping; Greeks; Bugs


THE YALLER JACKETS' NEST, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I could only wander back
Last Line: Round the yaller jackets' nest.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THREE THINGS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Three things puzzled aristotle's wife:
Last Line: The mind of her man.
Subject(s): Aristotle (384-322 B.c.); Bees; Insects; Reason; Tides; Women


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


TO A BEE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Small epicurean, would to heaven that I
Last Line: Still sips and sings the springtide hours away!
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


TO A BEE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou wert out betimes, thou busy busy bee
Last Line: Woe then for thee, thou busy busy bee!
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Labor & Laborers; Nature - Religious Aspects; Teaching & Teachers; Beekeeping; Bugs; Work; Workers


TO A HONEY BEE, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou, born to sip the lake or spring
Last Line: We'll tell the hive, you died afloat.
Variant Title(s): On A Honey Bee;the Honey Bee
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


TO A HONEY-BEE, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Busy-body, busy-body
Last Line: And turn my work to play.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


TO A POET-CRITIC, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, - the bee sings - I confess it
Last Line: Ef he didn't have no stinger.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Bees; Criticism & Critics; Heaven; Insects; Singing & Singers; Beekeeping; Paradise; Bugs


TO A WILD BEE, by MARY ANN BROWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Roamer of the mountain
Last Line: And thou, thou murmuring bee! Should chorus o'er my grave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gray, James, Mrs.; Gray, Mary Anne Browne
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


TO AN ANGRY BEE, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Malicious insect, little vengeful bee
Last Line: Crops sorrow's weed, and treads on pleasure's flower.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


TO GO, by HEATHER MCHUGH            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Bees; Plants; Beekeeping; Planting; Planters


TO THE BEE BALM, by JOHN BURROUGHS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Unmoved I saw you blooming
Last Line: That mirrored maid and flower.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


TO THE BEES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh whither, honey-bees
Last Line: My life that nourish
Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Kisses; Life; Lips; Spring; Beekeeping; Bugs


TO THE QUEEN OF THE BEES, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bee! Tell me, whence do you come?
Last Line: A honeycombe.
Variant Title(s): The Messenger
Subject(s): Bees; Honeycombs; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


TWO SONGS: 1, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A bee that was searching for sweets one day
Last Line: For to love is sweet, so sweet.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Robins; Beekeeping; Bugs


UP AGAINST IT, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As though these fresh leaves were pressing
Last Line: Fury to what’s impossible, feeling the sting in it
Subject(s): Bees


UPON A MOLE IN CELIA'S BOSOM, by THOMAS CAREW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That lovely spot which thou dost see
Last Line: Of the bee's honey and her sting.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Mole (skin Growth); Beekeeping; Bugs


VANDALS, BEES, by ALAN MICHAEL PARKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the poem about the vandals and the bees
Last Line: (yarrow, thistle, wheat, whatever.) %look at me, they yode. Beebeebee!
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Vandalism


WATCH, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Watching it closely, respecting its mystery,
Subject(s): Bees; Sycamore Trees; Conduct Of Life; Beekeeping


WEATHER WISE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: If bees stay at home / rain will soon come
Last Line: Fine will be the day
Variant Title(s): Bees;the Prophets Of The Hive
Subject(s): Bees;insects;weather; Beekeeping;bugs


WHIRLIGIGS, by NIKKI HERBST    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm counting what I have one of
Last Line: Honey, I queen for a day three-part harmony %winner of the spelling bee red sky at night sailor's de
Subject(s): Spelling Bees


WILD BEES, by JAMES KEIR BAXTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Often in summer, on a tarred bridge plank standing
Alternate Author Name(s): Hemi; Baxter, James K.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


WILD BEES, by JAMES KEIR BAXTER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Often in summer, on a tarred bridge plank standing
Last Line: To the fallen heart that does not cease to fall
Alternate Author Name(s): Hemi; Baxter, James K.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


WILD BEES, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These children of the sun which summer brings
Last Line: These sweeten summer in their happy glee %by giving for her honey melody
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


WILD GOATS, by ANICE PAGE COOPER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The moon is full but it won't spill over
Last Line: Hearts never do.
Subject(s): Bees; Girls; Hearts; Insects; Love; Beekeeping; Bugs


WILD HONEY, by RAYMOND HOLDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Still in my fingers the stings
Last Line: And a starless breeze.
Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond Peckham
Subject(s): Bees; Honey; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


WILD HONEY, by JAMES MAURICE THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where hints of racy sap and gum
Last Line: The pollen-dust of centuries!
Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, Maurice
Subject(s): Bees; Honey; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


WILD-ROSES, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Against the dim hot summer blue
Last Line: And brown bees drone their honey-call.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Roses; Summer; Beekeeping; Bugs


WINGS OF LACE, by HILDEGARDE FRIED DREPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pasque flowers hide within their hearts of gold
Last Line: To seed-pearls which take flight on wings of lace.
Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


WINTERING, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the easy time, there is nothing doing
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


WINTERING, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the easy time, there is nothing doing
Last Line: The bees are flying. They taste the spring
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


YELLOWJACKETS, by WILLIAM HEYEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How many years past was it I burned out their nest
Last Line: Their buried nest & one who could not live with them
Subject(s): Bees; Death; Future Life; Insects; Memory