Classic and Contemporary Poetry
KINDNESS TO INSECTS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a melancholy wasp Last Line: Upon a purple clover knosp. Subject(s): Insects; Rhyme; Bugs | ||||||||
I saw a Melancholy Wasp Upon a Purple Clover Knosp, Who wept, "The Poets do me Wrong, Excluding me from Noble Song -- Though Pure am I and Wholly Crimeless -- Because, they say, my Name is Rhymeless! Oh, had I but been born a Bee, With Heaps of Words to Rhyme with me, I should not want for Panegyrics In Sonnets, Epics, Odes and Lyrics! Will no one free me from the Curse That bars my Race from Lofty Verse?" "My Friend, that Little Thing I'll care for At once," said I -- and that is wherefore So tenderly I set that Wasp Upon a Purple Clover Knosp. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE EXHAUSTED BUG; FOR MY FATHER by ROBERT BLY PLASTIC BEATITUDE by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR BEETLE LIGHT; FOR DANIEL HILLEN by MADELINE DEFREES CLEMATIS MONTANA by MADELINE DEFREES THOMAS MERTON AND THE WINTER MARSH by NORMAN DUBIE |
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