Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BERRYING TIME, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poet's Biography First Line: Heigh-ho! For the fields and meadows Last Line: That ripen in july. Subject(s): Fields; Summer; Pastures; Meadows; Leas | ||||||||
Heigh-ho! for the fields and meadows, And the walls and hedges high, Where in plenty grow the berries That ripen in July. See the little boys and little girls, Full of noise and fun; With broad-brimmed straw hats and bonnets To shade them from the sun. Merry, happy, gay and cheerful, With bucket, cups and pails, They are trudging over hill-sides, And through the grassy dales; And by old walls and hedges, Along the hot road-side, In hollows near th' forest's edge, And 'cross the pastures wide; By old, deserted cabins, And by the water-mill, They go in search of berries, Their cups and pails to fill. God bless the happy children, Now they are coming back, -- All their pails and buckets laden With berries sweet and black. Then heigh-ho! for the fields and meadows, And the walls and hedges high, Where in plenty grow the berries, That ripen in July. | Other Poems of Interest...HUNTING PHEASANTS IN A CORNFIELD by ROBERT BLY THREE KINDS OF PLEASURES by ROBERT BLY QUESTION IN A FIELD by LOUISE BOGAN THE LAST MOWING by ROBERT FROST FIELD AND FOREST by RANDALL JARRELL AN EXPLANATION by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON IN FIELDS OF SUMMER by GALWAY KINNELL |
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