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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HONEY-HARVEST, by JANE BARLOW Poet's Biography First Line: Setting of summer all golden and sun's setting Last Line: Store -- else thou starvest -- store memories dear and olden. Subject(s): Honey | |||
Setting of summer all golden and sun's setting Glory kindle in a garden where flower-knots glow Like a pane of jewelled stain from the lattice fallen low, High that was holden in the wide west's fiery fretting. Hummeth around it unceasing the land, hummeth Loud with drone of the wheels that whir gathering rich gain, Field by field bereft must yield, with each amber-beaded grain Man's hoard increasing ere the wintry dearth-day cometh. Guerdon of toil 'mid the blossoms, a rare guerdon, Filmy wings quiver questing and murmurous make Fragrant air round bud-lips fair, for the dew-pure nectar's sake Hid in their bosoms, now the honey-bee's sweet burden. Golden the granary's harvest, the hive's golden, Rapt from troubling of storm-blast, from frost-blight's despair; So be wise 'neath smiling skies, so, ere all thy world lie bare, Store -- else thou starvest -- store memories dear and olden. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HONEY AT THE TABLE by MARY OLIVER HONEY DRIPPER by CLARENCE MAJOR HONEY DRIPPING FROM THE COMB by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY RANCH OF THE FAN (TIERRA CLIENTE) by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING THE HISTORY OF HONEY by NATHALIA CRANE ODE TO THE BEE by ROBERT FERGUSSON REMEMBERING LOVES AND DEATHS by THOMAS MCGRATH A CURLEW'S CALL by JANE BARLOW |
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