Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, JUNE, by JOHN RUSSELL MCCARTHY


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JUNE, by                    
First Line: Yon dragonfly is friends with me
Last Line: That weds red rose to rose.
Subject(s): June


Yon dragonfly is friends with me
And by my dingle goes
The solemn, priestly bumble-bee,
That marries rose to rose.

My book? In sooth I'm using it
To pillow up my head:
This day-lay is a brighter bit
Than any I have read.

My pipe and I are company.
(The cat-bird thinks it queer
That I should burn so carelessly --
Note now his call and leer.)

All morning-time, from dawn till noon,
I fished and mused and fished;
One wee-est bite had I for boon:
'Twas all the boon I wished.

I roam in eye-reach many a mile,
In fancy further roam;
The hours like fairy smiles beguile
My heart to my heart's home.

Yon veery is great friends with me,
And by my hollow goes
The grumbling, mumbling bumble-bee,
That weds red rose to rose.





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