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INVITATION TO THE BEE, by CHARLOTTE SMITH 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 | ||||||||
Child of patient industry, Little active busy bee, Thou art out at early morn, Just as the opening flowers are born, Among the green and grassy meads Where the cowslips hang their heads; Or by hedge-rows, while the dew Glitters on the harebell blue. -- Then on eager wing art flown, To thymy hillocks on the down; Or to revel on the broom; Or suck the clover's crimson bloom; Murmuring still thou busy bee Thy little ode to industry! Go while summer suns are bright, Take at large thy wandering flight; Go and load thy tiny feet With every rich and various sweet, Cling around the flowring thorn, Dive in the woodbine's honied horn, Seek the wild rose that shades the dell, Explore the foxglove's freckled bell, Or in the heath flower's fairy cup Drink the fragrant spirit up. But when the meadows shall be mown, And summer's garlands overblown; Then come, thou little busy bee, And let thy homestead be with me, There, shelter'd by thy straw-built hive, In my garden thou shalt live, And hat garden shall supply Thy delicious alchemy; There for thee, in autumn, blows The Indian pink and latest rose, The mignonette perfumes the air, And stocks, unfading flowers, are there. Yet fear not when the tempests come, And drive thee to thy waxen home, That I shall then most treacherously For thy honey murder thee. Ah, no! -- throughout the winter drear I'll feed thee, that another year Thou may'st renew thy industry Among the flowers, thou little busy bee. | Other Poems of Interest...INSECT LIFE OF FLORIDA by LYNDA HULL 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 ELEGIAC SONNET: 2. WRITTEN AT THE CLOSE OF SPRING by CHARLOTTE SMITH |
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