Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MY HOME, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX



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First Line: This is the place that I love the best
Last Line: The little brown house like a ground-bird's nest?
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Birds; Home; Summer; Sun


This is the place that I love the best,
A little brown house, like a ground-bird's nest,
Hid among grasses, and vines, and trees,
Summer retreat of the birds and bees.

The tenderest light that ever was seen
Sifts through the vine-made window screen --
Sifts and quivers, and flits and falls
On home-made carpets and gray-hung walls.

All through June, the west wind free
The breath of the clover brings to me.
All through the languid July day
I catch the scent of the new-mown hay.

The morning-glories and scarlet vine
Over the door-way twist and twine;
And every day, when the house is still,
The humming-bird comes to the window-sill.

In the cunningest chamber under the sun
I sink to sleep when the day is done;
And am waked at morn, in my snow-white bed,
By a singing-bird on the roof o'erhead.

Better than treasures brought from Rome,
Are the living pictures I see at home --
My aged father, with frosted hair,
And mother's face, like a painting rare.

Far from the city's dust and heat,
I get but sounds and odors sweet.
Who can wonder I love to stay,
Week after week, here hidden away,
In this sly nook that I love the best --
The little brown house like a ground-bird's nest?




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