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| Searching... Subject: BEEKEEPING Matches Found: 134 "DIRGE (TO THE MEMORY OF MISS ELLEN GREE, OF KEW ...)", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Peerless yet hapless maid of q! Last Line: Her dirge and leg Subject(s): Alphabets;bees;death;funerals;insects;language; "beekeeping;dead, The;burials;bugs;words;vocabulary; A BEE-KEEPER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When bees come hither in the fair springtide Last Line: The neighbour of the mountain-peak is dead Subject(s): Bees;insects; Beekeeping;bugs A BLACK PATCH ON LUCASTA'S FACE (1), by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dull as I was, to think that a court fly Last Line: But the sweet little bees large monument. Subject(s): Bees; Faces; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs A FABLE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said a little boy to a honey bee Last Line: Said the honey bee to the little boy. Subject(s): Bees; Boys; Fables; Insects; Play; Beekeeping; Allegories; Bugs A MORE ANCIENT MARINER, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The swarthy bee is a buccaneer Last Line: With the mercury at zero. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs A NATURE-LOVER PASSES, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON Poem Text 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 A SONG OF A GARDEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What a thing a garden is Last Line: To bid grow, to increase! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Animals; Bees; Birds; Dreams; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Herbs; Insects; Medicine; Quiet Life; Beekeeping; Nightmares; Bugs; Drugs, Prescription A SUMMER NIGHT IN THE BEEHIVE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little bee returns with evening's gloom Last Line: Another day of honey has begun! Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs A TIME OF BEES, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day my husband pounds on the upstairs porch Subject(s): Bees; Marriage; Beekeeping; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AGAINST IDLENESS AND MISCHIEF, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How doth the little busy bee / improve each shining hour Last Line: Some good account at last. Variant Title(s): The Busy Bee Subject(s): Bees; Children; Insects; Beekeeping; Childhood; Bugs AMPHITYRON, OR THE TWO SOSIAS: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The laboring bee, when his sharp sting is gone Last Line: To make fine fools of you, and all your parts. Subject(s): Bees; Fame; Insects; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Beekeeping; Reputation; Bugs; Dramatists; Stage Life APIARY 40, by CAROL FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The humble sense of being alive Subject(s): Bees; Beekeeping APIARY IX, by CAROL FROST Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Two anthills and a late summer hive Subject(s): Bees; Beekeeping ARIEL'S SONG (2), FR. THE TEMPEST, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the bee sucks, there suck I Last Line: Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. Subject(s): Bees; Fairies; Insects; Love; Beekeeping; Elves; Bugs ATHOLE BROSE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Willie an' I cam doun by blair Last Line: And in by tullibardine. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Bees; Gardens & Gardening; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs BACK THEY SPUTTER, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Back they sputter like the fires of love, the bees to their broken home Subject(s): Bees; Beekeeping BAGATELLES: 1, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: The wanton bee that suck'd the rose Last Line: Beyond the dying day. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Love; Roses; Beekeeping; Bugs BALLADE OF THE BEES OF TREBIZOND, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There blooms a flower in trebizond Last Line: To taste that honey is to die. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs BEES, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A swarm of bees in may Last Line: Is not worth a fly. Variant Title(s): Hampshire Bee-keeping Rhyme Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs BEES, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: That the bees were born in the corpse of the injured animal Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs BEES, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A man whose arms and shoulders Subject(s): Bees; Beekeeping BEES AND MORNING GLORY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Morning glories, pale as a mist drying Subject(s): Bees; Morning Glories; Transience; Beekeeping; Impermanence BEES IN CLOVER; A SONG, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up the dewy slopes of morning Last Line: Falls in tune? Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs BLIND HUBER (12), by NICK FLYNN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus transfixed, stare blank at one Last Line: But not as much as I had hoped Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs BUMBLE BEE, D. D., by ORTHA L. WILNER Poem Text First Line: Beside a haughty fleur-de-lis Last Line: To the weed of gold. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs COLOPHON, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: More than the beetles turned russet, Subject(s): Bees; Mortality; Beekeeping DA QUEENA BEE, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Meester, eef you nevva see Last Line: Evra wan hersal' a queen! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Babies; Bees; Insects; Infants; Beekeeping; Bugs EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 16. CUPID HIMSELF STUNG, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Does a bee's sting thus make thee cry and whine? Last Line: Comes as much short as that compared to thee. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Love; Beekeeping; Bugs FABLE: THE BEE, THE ANT, AND THE SPARROW, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My dears, 'tis said in days of old Last Line: The wicked, wanton sparrow died. Subject(s): Bees; Fables; Insects; Sparrows; Virtue; Beekeeping; Allegories; Bugs FABLES: 2ND SER. 10. THE DEGENERATE BEES, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though courts the practice disallow Last Line: We're honour'd by the virtuous few. Subject(s): Bees; Corruption In Politics; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs FANNY; OR, THE BEAUTY AND THE BEE, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fanny, array'd in the bloom of her beauty Last Line: "go forth and be happy—I blame you no more." Subject(s): Beauty; Bees; Forgiveness; Insects; Beekeeping; Clemency; Bugs FESSLER'S BEES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Talkin' bout yer bees,' says ike Last Line: "fore he went to floridy!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bees; Honey; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs FIELD OF VISION, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And if the bee, half-drunk Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Bees; Beekeeping FUSCARA; OR, THE BEE ERRANT, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nature's confectioner, the bee Last Line: The bee committed parricide. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs GOLDEN GLORIES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The buttercup is like a golden cup Last Line: Sucks from sweet hearts of flowers and stores and sips. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs HEAD OF A WHITE WOMAN WINKING, by JAMES TATE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She has one good bumblebee Subject(s): Bees; Beekeeping HELIODORA, by MELEAGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why dost thou touch, o flower-fed bee Last Line: I knew it long ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs HIVES AND HOMES, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When march has gone with his cruel wind Last Line: When the summer of life is over. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs HOKKU, by WINIFRED WALDRON Poem Text First Line: Bringer of pollen Last Line: Love is my duty. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Love; Beekeeping; Bugs HUMM, by MARY OLIVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is this dark hum among the roses? Subject(s): Bees; Beekeeping IN GATINAIS: REPOSE AT NOON, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Bee, that the thyme doth sing, how clear thy hum doth ring in the Last Line: Ear! Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Life; Noon; Beekeeping; Bugs IN TALL GRASS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bees and a honeycomb in the dried head of a horse in Last Line: The bees come home and the bees sleep. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs INAMORATA, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bees were holding levees in the flowers Last Line: And keep me happy in your pious prayer. Subject(s): April; Bees; Insects; Love; Beekeeping; Bugs INVITATION TO THE BEE, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text 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 JULIUS CAESAR AND THE HONEY-BEE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poring on caesar's death with earnest eye Last Line: I might have set the honey-maker free. Subject(s): Bees; Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs KILLING THE BEES, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They'd been there for years, secreted in the ceiling Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs KING SOLOMON AND THE BEES; A TALE OF THE TALMUD, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When solomon was reigning in his glory Last Line: As israel's king learned wisdom from the bees! Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Jews; Sheba, Queen Of (10th Century B.c.); Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Beekeeping; Bugs; Judaism MARIA'S PURSE, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Maria had an aunt at leeds Last Line: "admit the insects' greater skill!" Subject(s): Bees; Girls; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs MINISTERING BEES, by VIRGINIA TAYLOR MCCORMICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Think you this topaz powder on the bee Last Line: Not merely honey drunken debauchees! Subject(s): Bees; Drinks & Drinking; Insects; Sex; Beekeeping; Wine; Bugs MOWING, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleepy and suburban at dusk, Subject(s): Mowing & Mowers; Bees; Lawn Mowers; Beekeeping ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cupid once upon a bed Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Bees; Drinks & Drinking; Beekeeping; Wine ODE TO THE BEE, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Herds, blythsome tune your canty reeds Last Line: That lyart time can ne'er impair. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Bees; Honey; Insects; Praise; Beekeeping; Bugs ON THE DEATH OF LITTLE MAHALA ASHCRAFT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little haly! Little haly!' cheeps the robin the tree Last Line: "and the katydids and crickets hollers ""haly!"" all the night." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bees; Birds; Death; Grief; Insects; Night; Beekeeping; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bugs; Bedtime PODAGER BEGS PARDON OF BIRDS, BEES, AND WINGS IN GENERAL, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pardon me, all ye birds that float at ease Last Line: A chiding angel, of the smallest wing. Subject(s): Angels; Bees; Birds; Flight; Insects; Wings; Beekeeping; Flying; Bugs SHARD, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the ravages that took the bees by storm Variant Title(s): Last Drop Subject(s): Bees; Honey; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 105, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What does the bee do? Last Line: Eat up the honey. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): What Do They Do? Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs SISYPHUS BEE, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I couldn't help it, I nearly fell asleep Subject(s): Bees; Beekeeping STINGS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Bare-handed, I hand the combs Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs SUFFERING, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: I sat down on a bumble bee Last Line: Humiliating pain. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Pain; Beekeeping; Bugs; Suffering; Misery SWEET HONEY-SUCKING BEES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Was ever dart so sharp ah then you die Subject(s): Bees;honey;insects; Beekeeping;bugs TELLING THE BEES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "naiads, and ye pastures cold" Last Line: Mourn a neighbor and a friend Subject(s): Bees;insects; Beekeeping;bugs TELLING THE BEES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the place; right over the hill Last Line: "mistress mary is dead and gone!" Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Mourning; Beekeeping; Bugs; Bereavement TELLING THE BEES (A COLONIAL CUSTOM), by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bathsheba came out to the sun Last Line: Telling the bees. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE ARRIVAL OF THE BEE BOX, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I ordered this, this clean wood box Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE BAG OF THE BEE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: About the sweet bag of a bee Last Line: And gave the bag between them. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE BEE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like trains of cars on tracks of plush Last Line: Of clovers and of noon! Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE BEE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mark how the neat assiduous bee Last Line: When smiling youth is past. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE BEE, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What time I paced, at pleasant morn Last Line: Tampa, florida, 1877. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE BEE AND THE BLOSSOMS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why stand ye idle, blossoms bright Last Line: "for what thou takest away!" Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE BEE MEETING, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Who are these people at the bridge to meet me? They are the Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Bees; Fear; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE BEE'S WING, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fill, fill to the brim, let the bubble forth swin Last Line: "along with the ""bee's wing." Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE BEE; AN EPIGRAM: STREPHON TO DELIA, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lovely delia, why so coy? Last Line: I fear, like bees, he'd raise a swelling. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE BEE; TO GRANCIS DE MIOMANDRE, by PAUL VALERY Poet's Biography First Line: What and how keen and mortal soever Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE BEEKEEPER'S DAUGHTER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A garden of mouthings. Purple, scarlet-speckled, black Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Bees; Fathers & Daughters; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE BEES OF MYDDLETON MANOR; 17TH CENTURY, by MAY PROBYN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Buzzing, buzzing, buzzing, my golden-belted bees Last Line: Middleton luck it's done and dead. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE BEES' SONG, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thousandz of thornz there be Last Line: Of far-away zzzee. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE BLUEBELL, by MARGARET WADE CAMPBELL DELAND Poem Text First Line: In love she fell Last Line: When, lo, he flew away! Subject(s): Bees; Bluebells; Insects; Love; Beekeeping; Bugs THE BUMBLEBEE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You better not fool with a bumblebee! Last Line: "wears out his welcome too quick fer me!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE CAPTIVE BEE; OR THE LITTLE FILCHER, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As julia once a-slumbering lay Last Line: Hony enough to fill his hive. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE DAVENTRY WONDER; SHOWING HOW FARMER B-LL'S BEES ISSUED ..., by AGRICOLA [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "now cynthia shone serene, and every star" Last Line: "let learned macclesfield say what he will, / spite of new style, we'll keep old christmas still" Alternate Author Name(s): Agricola Subject(s): Bees;christmas;farm Life;holidays;insects; "beekeeping;nativity, The;agriculture;farmers;bugs; THE FIRST DAYS, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first thing I saw in the morning Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Bees; Pear Trees; Beekeeping; Pears THE GIRL WITH BEES IN HER HAIR, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Came in an envelope with no return address; Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Bees; Fear; Beekeeping THE GRUMBLING HIVE; OR, KNAVES TURN'D HONEST, by BERNARD MANDEVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A spacious hive well stocked with bees Last Line: For acorns as for honesty. Subject(s): Bees; Freedom; Insects; Beekeeping; Liberty; Bugs THE HEN AND THE HONEY-BEE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "a lazy hen, -- the story goes" Last Line: Are doing all the useful labor! Subject(s): Bees;hens;insects;labor & Laborers; Beekeeping;bugs THE HOMING BEE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are belted with gold, little brotherb of mine Last Line: For others, your gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Metaphor; Nature; Beekeeping; Bugs; Similes THE HONEY BEE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O bee, goodby Last Line: No second sting. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE HONEYBEE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You do everything, melissa, just the way Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Love; Love - Complaints; Pentastichs; Beekeeping; Bugs THE HUMBLE BEE, by CATHERINE ANNE DORSET Poem Text First Line: Good morrow, gentle humble bee Last Line: To bliss again! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Catherine Anne Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE HUMBLE-BEE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Burly, dozing humble-bee, / where thou art is clime for me Last Line: Thy sleep makes ridiculous. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE HUMMING BIRDS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green wing and ruby throat Last Line: Sleeps in this bloom; and, when it falls, they go. Subject(s): Bees; Heaven; Hummingbirds; Insects; Sleep; Summer; Trees; Beekeeping; Paradise; Bugs THE IRATE BEE, by IDA L. PADELFORD Poem Text First Line: Devilish squirmy spider Last Line: And push my way clean through. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Spiders; Beekeeping; Bugs THE LANAWN SHEE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Powdered and perfumed the full bee Last Line: We two shall move to fairy places. Subject(s): Bees; Fairies; Happiness; Insects; Ireland; Mythology - Irish; Poppies; Beekeeping; Elves; Joy; Delight; Bugs; Irish THE LESSON, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother tells little bee Last Line: Sons of men! Sons of men! Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE LINDENS, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bees in the lindens booming Last Line: In three days told. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Nature; Beekeeping; Bugs THE MARCH BEE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A warning wind finds out my resting-place Last Line: Still listening to the bee, still basking in the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Bees; England; Insects; Landscape; Beekeeping; English; Bugs THE MIRACLE OF THE BEES AND FOXGLOVES, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because hairs on their speckled daybeds baffle the little bees Subject(s): Foxgloves; Bees; Beekeeping THE PARLIAMENT OF BEES, by JOHN DAY Poem Text First Line: Abroad, my pretty bees: I hope you'll find Last Line: From forth our wingèd commonwealth. Subject(s): Bees; Fantasy; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE PART OF THE BEE'S BODY EMBEDDED IN THE FLESH, by CAROL FROST Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The bee-boy, merops apiaster, on sultry thundery days Subject(s): Bees; Beauty; Beekeeping THE PINEAPPLES AND THE BEE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pineapples, in triple row Last Line: Can gather honey from a weed. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Pineapples; Truth; Wisdom; Beekeeping; Bugs THE PRESENT: OR THE BAG OF THE BEE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fly to my mistresse, pretty pilfring bee Last Line: Tole forth my death; next, to my buryall come. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE QUEEN-BEE FLIES, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High on the breeze flies the virgin-queen of the hive! Last Line: With your low, slow song, praising -- praising -- eternity-long! Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE ROSE AND THE BEE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I were a bee and you were a rose Last Line: "if you were a bee." Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Roses; Beekeeping; Bugs THE SECRET OF THE BEES, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How have you managed it? Bright busy bee! Last Line: And we got our good habits through sheer common-sense. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE SOUND, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a boy at this time of year Last Line: I said, if only I could hear them. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Nature; Sound; Beekeeping; Bugs THE SPIDER AND THE BEE, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The nymph who walks the public streets Last Line: By folly your own schemes undo.' Subject(s): Beauty; Bees; Charm; Desire; Insects; Spiders; Women; Beekeeping; Bugs THE SPIDER AND THE BEE (A TALE FOR THE TIMES), by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He had closed his volume of theorie Last Line: This story one tiny superfluous token. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Philosophy & Philosophers; Spiders; Beekeeping; Bugs THE SWARM, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody is shooting at something in our town Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Beekeeping; Bugs THE TAX-GATHERER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And pray, who are you? Last Line: "have you nothing for me?" Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Taxes; Beekeeping; Bugs THE TULIP AND THE LILY, SELECTION, by JAMES BARCLAY Poem Text First Line: To these proud taunts and more beside Last Line: "perfumes e'en cloe's fragrant breath." Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Lilies; Beekeeping; Bugs THE WHITE BEES, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long ago apollo called to aristaeus Last Line: Joy and pain of seeking, -- and at last we sleep! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Bees; Greece; Insects; Paganism & Pagans; Beekeeping; Greeks; Bugs THE YALLER JACKETS' NEST, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I could only wander back Last Line: Round the yaller jackets' nest. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs TO A BEE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Columbus in velvet, / this afternoon sunny Last Line: America blooming! Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs TO A BEE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Small epicurean, would to heaven that I Last Line: Still sips and sings the springtide hours away! Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs TO A BEE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou wert out betimes, thou busy busy bee Last Line: Woe then for thee, thou busy busy bee! Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Labor & Laborers; Nature - Religious Aspects; Teaching & Teachers; Beekeeping; Bugs; Work; Workers TO A HONEY BEE, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, born to sip the lake or spring Last Line: We'll tell the hive, you died afloat. Variant Title(s): On A Honey Bee;the Honey Bee Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs TO A HONEY-BEE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Busy-body, busy-body Last Line: And turn my work to play. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs TO A POET-CRITIC, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, - the bee sings - I confess it Last Line: Ef he didn't have no stinger. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bees; Criticism & Critics; Heaven; Insects; Singing & Singers; Beekeeping; Paradise; Bugs TO A WILD BEE, by MARY ANN BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Roamer of the mountain Last Line: And thou, thou murmuring bee! Should chorus o'er my grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Gray, James, Mrs.; Gray, Mary Anne Browne Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs TO AN ANGRY BEE, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Malicious insect, little vengeful bee Last Line: Crops sorrow's weed, and treads on pleasure's flower. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs TO GO, by HEATHER MCHUGH Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bees; Plants; Beekeeping; Planting; Planters TO THE BEE BALM, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unmoved I saw you blooming Last Line: That mirrored maid and flower. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs TO THE BEES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh whither, honey-bees Last Line: My life that nourish Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Kisses; Life; Lips; Spring; Beekeeping; Bugs TO THE QUEEN OF THE BEES, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bee! Tell me, whence do you come? Last Line: A honeycombe. Variant Title(s): The Messenger Subject(s): Bees; Honeycombs; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs TWO SONGS: 1, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bee that was searching for sweets one day Last Line: For to love is sweet, so sweet. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Robins; Beekeeping; Bugs UPON A MOLE IN CELIA'S BOSOM, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That lovely spot which thou dost see Last Line: Of the bee's honey and her sting. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Mole (skin Growth); Beekeeping; Bugs WATCH, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Watching it closely, respecting its mystery, Subject(s): Bees; Sycamore Trees; Conduct Of Life; Beekeeping WEATHER WISE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If bees stay at home / rain will soon come Last Line: Fine will be the day Variant Title(s): Bees;the Prophets Of The Hive Subject(s): Bees;insects;weather; Beekeeping;bugs WILD BEES, by JAMES KEIR BAXTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Often in summer, on a tarred bridge plank standing Alternate Author Name(s): Hemi; Baxter, James K. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs WILD GOATS, by ANICE PAGE COOPER Poem Text First Line: The moon is full but it won't spill over Last Line: Hearts never do. Subject(s): Bees; Girls; Hearts; Insects; Love; Beekeeping; Bugs WILD HONEY, by RAYMOND HOLDEN Poem Text First Line: Still in my fingers the stings Last Line: And a starless breeze. Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond Peckham Subject(s): Bees; Honey; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs WILD HONEY, by JAMES MAURICE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where hints of racy sap and gum Last Line: The pollen-dust of centuries! Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, Maurice Subject(s): Bees; Honey; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs WILD-ROSES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Against the dim hot summer blue Last Line: And brown bees drone their honey-call. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Roses; Summer; Beekeeping; Bugs WINGS OF LACE, by HILDEGARDE FRIED DREPS Poem Text First Line: Pasque flowers hide within their hearts of gold Last Line: To seed-pearls which take flight on wings of lace. Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs WINTERING, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the easy time, there is nothing doing Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs |
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