Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A NATURE-LOVER PASSES, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON 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 | ||||||||
(In certain parts of the World the custom still prevails of telling the bees that a member of the family has died.) Bees, go tell the things he treasured -- Oak and grass and viole -- That although his life was measured He is with them yet! Tell the wild rose and the clover That the earth has made him over! Tell the lilting, loitering stream He is sharer of its dream! Whisper to the April wood Of his blending in its mood! Tell the wind his spirit flows In whatever path it blows! Tell the thrush it draws its art From the rapture of his heart! Bees, to his green shelter bring All of earth's bright gossiping: Tales of feather, flower, or fur; Sap upmounting; wings astir! Now we may no more attend him,. Bid his loved wild things befriend him! | 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 THE ROAD TO FRANCE by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON |
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