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| Searching... Subject: BUGS Matches Found: 333 "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 BESTIARY: THE ANT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the ant is mighty, tho' small" Last Line: "now, and on the last great day, / when we be in need" Subject(s): Ants;insects; Bugs A BESTIARY: THE SPIDER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Some things created they be Last Line: When he worketh upon him ill Subject(s): Insects;spiders; 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 CONSERVATIVE, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The garden beds I wandered by Last Line: Into his chrysalis. Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs A DIET OF WORMS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The caterpillars met one day Last Line: For dinner! Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs A DREAM (1), by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed I was a spider Last Line: And devoured them one by one. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Insects; Spiders; Nightmares; 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 GARDEN IDYL, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With sagest craft arachne worked Last Line: A solitary filament. Subject(s): Insects; Mythology; Spiders; 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 RAINBOW FOUNDATION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once a spider built a cobweb on a rainbow bright and gay Last Line: "with foundations not so showy, but more firm and permanent!" Subject(s): Insects; Rainbows; Spiders; Bugs A SLEEPING BEAUTY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An alien wind that blew and blew Last Line: As he turned to go -- yet, pausing, gazed? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Insects; Nature; Wind; Bugs A SLEEPY SONG, by CHARLES BUXTON GOING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The butterfly swings on the flower alseep Last Line: Sleepy time, sleepy time now! Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Sleep; Bugs A SOLILOQUY; OCCASIONED BY THE CHIRPING OF A GRASSHOPPER, by WALTER HARTE Poem Text First Line: Happy insect! Ever blest Last Line: Thou art starved, and so am I! Subject(s): Grasshoppers; Insects; Life; Bugs A SONG, by S. P. (19TH CENTURY) Poem Text First Line: Oh, the hopper grass is clattering and flying all the day Last Line: And the katydid is chirping all night long. Subject(s): Insects; 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 SONG OF THE SEASON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I am a moth ball Last Line: But out! Subject(s): Animals;environment;insects;moths; Environmental Protection;ecology;conservation;bugs 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 WOOD ORCHID, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "a butterfly, wing-weary, came to find" Last Line: Of pink flushed wings -- and found them rooted there Subject(s): Butterflies;insects; Bugs ACTING ON A TIP, by JAMES TATE Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We went to the bug-eating state Subject(s): Camping; Insects; Camps; Summer Camps; Bugs 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 ALL DAY: WINDOW-BARS, by JEANNETTE AUGUSTUS MARKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now I lie still Last Line: From dawn to dark! Subject(s): Birds; Insects; Windows; 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 AN AUGUST MIDNIGHT, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shaded lamp and a waving blind Last Line: They know earth-secrets that know not I. Subject(s): Insects; Bugs ANTS, by DAISY WRIGHT FIELD Poem Text First Line: I read of a man who was tied down Last Line: By the little things. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Wright Subject(s): Ants; Duty; Insects; Women; Bugs ARACHNE, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watch her in the corner there Last Line: But day by day I spin my shroud. Subject(s): Fate; Insects; Spiders; Destiny; Bugs ARACHNE, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs 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 ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 11, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like some drowsy bayaderes Last Line: Is a duel with a bug! Subject(s): Insects; Love; Bugs 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 BEAUTIFUL WINGS, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful wings that beat the void Last Line: Builds heaven overhead. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Poetry & Poets; 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 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 BEETLE LIGHT; FOR DANIEL HILLEN, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hornets collect on the side of the sun Last Line: The exterminator. Very soon they will die. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Extermination & Exterminators; Insects; Light; Poetry & Poets; 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 BLUE BUTTERFLY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lucy paused for the blue butterfly Last Line: Is whispering in my lonely walk anew. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Butterflies; England; Insects; Landscape; English; Bugs BLUE-BUTTERFLY DAY, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is blue-butterfly day here in spring Last Line: Where wheels have freshly sliced the april mire. Subject(s): Animals; Butterflies; Insects; 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 BUTTERFLIES, by SAINT-PAUL ROUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time tells the rosary of the sun Last Line: Time tells the rosary of the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Paul Pierre; Roux, P0l Subject(s): Angels; Butterflies; Colors; Insects; Spring; Bugs BUTTERFLIES, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Frail travellers, deftly flickering over the flowers Last Line: To know but this, the phantom glare of day. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs BUTTERFLY, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Butterfly, the wind blows sea-ward, strong beyond the garden wall Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs BUTTERFLY, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of living creatures most I prize Last Line: When mother leans to say good night Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs BUTTERFLY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Butterfly, butterfly, sipping the sand Last Line: That sand-filtered water tastes better to you? Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs BUTTERFLY (1), by HILDA CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Butterfly, / I like the way your wear your wings Last Line: And evening murmurs by. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs BUTTERFLY (2), by HILDA CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I walked through my garden Last Line: "I have to go the opposite way." Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs BUTTERFLY LAUGHTER, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the middle of our porridge plate Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Butterflies; Grandparents; Insects; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Bugs BUTTERFLY WINGS, by LOUISE CRENSHAW RAY Poem Text First Line: Some far off summer day, when you shall see Last Line: Oh, magic touch of dusky velvet wings! Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Magic; Poppies; Bugs CATERPILLARS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of caterpillars fabre tells how day after day Last Line: In a heaving ring returning the same regrets. Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs CHIPPEWA MUSIC: THE SONG OF BUTTERFLY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In the coming heat Last Line: I stood there Subject(s): Butterflies;insects; Bugs CIGARILLO, by CATE MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The visit of a body. Ants gathered sugar Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Bugs CINQUAIN: CATERPILLAR, by KENNETH CHING Poem Text First Line: Hurry Last Line: Of wings. Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs CLEMATIS MONTANA, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flocks of itinerant stars, flung from night's Last Line: Pool of the soul's wide summer. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Stars; Summer; Bugs CLOCK-A-CLAY, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the cowslip pips I lie / hidden from the buzzing fly Last Line: Watching for the time of day. Subject(s): Insects; Ladybirds; Poetry & Poets; Bugs; Ladybugs CORN-GRINDING SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "butterflies, butterflies" Last Line: "butterflies, away!" Subject(s): Butterflies;fields;insects; Pastures;meadows;leas;bugs 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 DALEY'S DORG WATTLE, by W. T. GOODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You can talk about yer sheep dorgs,' said the man from allan's creek Last Line: "that there dorg had got that inseck in the bottle." Alternate Author Name(s): Goodge, William Thomas Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Insects; Bugs DELIGHTS OF CAMP LIFE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Come to the home of the friendly mosquito Last Line: Come to where the centipedes crawl underneath Subject(s): Centipedes;insects;mosquitoes; Bugs DEPARTMENTAL, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: An ant on the table cloth Last Line: But how thoroughly departmental Subject(s): Ants; Bureaucracy; Insects; Bugs DESIGN, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I found a dimpled spider, fat and white Last Line: If design govern in a thing so small. Subject(s): Death; Fate; God; Insects; Men; Nature; Spiders; Dead, The; Destiny; Bugs DISASTER, by MAY FAIR Poem Text First Line: A mossy knoll under a dogwood tree Last Line: And plodding on, knew not their writhing pain. Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Bugs DISCLOSURE, by EDNA HOWE Poem Text First Line: The transient butterfly declares Last Line: And a diviner duty. Subject(s): Beauty; Butterflies; Insects; Bugs DISCOVERY, by DOROTHY SIGMUND Poem Text First Line: A caterpillar squirmed Last Line: And slowly slithered down. Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs DOUBLED MIRRORS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It is the dark of the moon Subject(s): Insects; Nature; Raccoons; Spiders; Bugs ELEGIAC SONNET: 77. TO THE INSECT OF THE GOSSAMER, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Small, viewless aeronaut, that by the line Last Line: Ah! Soon at sorrow's touch the radiant dreams dissolve! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; 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 ENVOI, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fly, white butterflies, out to sea Last Line: Fly! Variant Title(s): White Butterflies Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Roundels; 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: 1ST SER. 24. THE BUTTERFLY AND THE SNAIL, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All upstarts, insolent in place Last Line: Shall prove of caterpillar breed. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Snails; Bugs FABLES: 1ST SER. 38. THE TURKEY AND THE ANT, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In other men we faults can spy Last Line: Nor for a breakfast nations kill. Subject(s): Ants; Food & Eating; Insects; Turkeys; 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 FABLES: 2ND SER. 4. THE ANT IN OFFICE, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You tell me that you apprehend Last Line: As due, to publick use restor'd. Subject(s): Ants; Corruption In Politics; Insects; Bugs FALLING IN LOVE AT SIXTY-FIVE, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is like the first and last time I tried a coleman Last Line: To answer what was being insisted on Subject(s): Books; Insects; Maine (state); Night; Old Age; Love – Nature Of; Reading; Bugs; Bedtime 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 WIRELESS, by BENJAMIN ALBERT BOTKIN Poem Text First Line: Firefly and cricket Last Line: When people grow sleepy. Subject(s): Insects; Bugs FIELDWORK, by BOB HICOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are two kinds of people and five hundred Last Line: The jealous eyes of god have seen? Subject(s): Amazons; Beetles; Insects; Jungles; Wilderness; Bugs FIREFLY CITY, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a long arrow through the dark the train is darting Last Line: The fire-fly city of the dark is lost in empty air! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Fireflies; Insects; Glowworms; Bugs FLOODGATE, by DAVID MCCORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Low, when the western flock is folded Last Line: And the owl begins his flight. Subject(s): Birds; Floods; Insects; Owls; Bugs FLYING BLOSSOMS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: These butterflies, in twos and threes Last Line: Another crop of golden corn! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Wings; Bugs FLYING CROOKED, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The butterly, the cabbage-white Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs FOR A DESIGN OF A BUTTERFLY RESTING ON A SKULL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Creature of air and light Last Line: Thy hope calls heavenward from yon ruined cell. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs 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 GOUT AND WINGS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pigeons fluttered fieldward, one and all Last Line: A wing was open'd at me everywhere! Subject(s): Birds; Flight; Gout; Insects; Wings; Flying; Bugs GRANDMOTHER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A spider floats from the apple tree Last Line: Had proved to be there at all. Subject(s): Comfort; Ghosts; Grandparents; Insects; Spiders; Supernatural; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Bugs 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 HOME AT NIGHT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When chirping crickets fainter cry Last Line: Are lifted -- and the lips of kate. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Home; Insects; Night; Bugs; Bedtime HOMELESS COMPLEYNT, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pardon me buddy, I didn't mean to bug you Last Line: Wiping your windshield with a dirty rag Subject(s): Homeless; Insects; Veterans; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Bugs HONEYCOMB, by N. M. BENNETT Poem Text First Line: Within unnumbered, fragile cells the bee Last Line: I taste -- and I am satisfied awhile. Subject(s): Insects; Bugs HUM-BUGS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some bugs will sting and bite, and some Last Line: The bug that hums and does not bite. Subject(s): Insects; Bugs HYMN TO AURORA, by JULIO FLOREZ Poem Text First Line: Thou heavenly butterfly / whose great and tenuous wings Last Line: To ashes day shall burn! Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs I'D BE A BUTTERFLY, by THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd be a butterfly born in a bower Last Line: Dying when fair things are fading away Alternate Author Name(s): Bayly, Nathaniel Thomas Haynes Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs 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 INFESTATION, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Even insects have histories Last Line: Upon which they take their evening meal Subject(s): Insects; Exterminating & Exterminators; Bugs INSECT HEADS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These insects, golden Last Line: Hold sand paintings of the next life Subject(s): Insects; Bugs INSECT LIFE OF FLORIDA, by LYNDA HULL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In those days I thought their endless thrum Last Line: And dangerous as the human heart Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Florida; Family Life; Insects; Animals; Relatives; Bugs INSPIRATION, by ABBOTTE MCKINNON DOWNING Poem Text First Line: Lovely butterfly! / you're like a fleeting Last Line: Carefree and gay -- for one short span. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; 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 KINDNESS TO INSECTS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a melancholy wasp Last Line: Upon a purple clover knosp. Subject(s): Insects; Rhyme; Bugs KING SOLOMON AND THE ANTS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out from jerusalem Last Line: "than flatteries of the great." Subject(s): Ants; Bible; Insects; Religion; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Bugs; Theology 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 KOROSTA KATZINA SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Yellow butterflies / over the blossoming virgin corn Last Line: All day shall come the rushing rain Subject(s): Butterflies;corn;fields;harvest;insects; Pastures;meadows;leas;bugs LINES ON A GRASSHOPPER (BY A GRANGER NATURALIST), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I've got him, at last, in the focus" Last Line: Whenever he lit at their gate Subject(s): Grasshoppers;insects;nature; Bugs LINES TO A LADY-BIRD, by JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cow-lady, or sweet lady-bird Last Line: I bid thee hail, bright lady-bird! Alternate Author Name(s): Lancaster, William P.; Preston, George F.; De Tabley, 3d Baron; De Tabley, Lord Subject(s): Insects; Ladybirds; Bugs; Ladybugs LYCOSA, THE SPIDER, by ANNIE CHARLOTTE DALTON Poem Text First Line: Hannah, offering her first-born Last Line: For lord or sun? Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs MARCO POLO, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He was heroic, fugitive, in love with the machinery Last Line: Devoured by the oriental machinery of the silkworm Subject(s): Explorers; Insects; Money; Polo, Marco (1254-1324); Sea; Skeletons; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Bugs; Ocean 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 MARIPOSA, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Butterflies are white and blue Last Line: Death comes in a day or two. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Butterflies; Carpe Diem; Death; Insects; Dead, The; Bugs MIDGES IN THE SUNSHINE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If I could see with a midge's eye Last Line: "as that larger midge, a man!" Subject(s): Insects; 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 MOMENT, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two small white butterflies settle Last Line: In tune with things, staining the day Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs MORNING HARVEST, by GERALD STERN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pennsylvania spiders / not only stretch their silk between the limbs Subject(s): Civilization; Insects; Pennsylvania; Spiders; Bugs MR. EDWARDS AND THE SPIDER, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the spiders marching through the air Subject(s): Calvinists; Death; Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758); God; Insects; Sin; Spiders; Dead, The; Bugs MUIOPOTMOS, OR THE FATE OF THE BUTTERFLIE, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sing of deadly dolorous debate Last Line: His bodie left the spectacle of care. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Butterflies; Fables; Insects; Mythology; Allegories; Bugs MUSICAL CHAIRS, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The chairs were set up on the hillside Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Chairs; Games; Insects; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Bugs MY BROTHER'S BUG, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My brother’s bug was green and plump Last Line: Was when I squashed my brother’s bug Subject(s): Bugs MY BUG AMOS, by VIRGINIA ELLIS Poem Text First Line: I done it - I killed 'im Last Line: My fingers . . . 'at amos 'us in my hand? Subject(s): Insects; Bugs MY BUTTERFLY, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thine emulous fond flowers are dead, too Last Line: Under the eaves. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs MY BUTTERFLY, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: As the butterfly held in the mesh of the net Last Line: Which lies in the depth of a kiss! Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs NATURE, FOR NATURE'S SAKE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White as white butterflies that each one dons Last Line: Without your father falleth to the ground.' Subject(s): Butterflies; God; Insects; Life; Nature; Bugs NEW SPRING: 7, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With the rose the butterfly's deep in love Last Line: The star of eve and butterfly. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs NIGHT CRAWLER, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The last automobile of night passes. I exit, drop to knees on a wet blan Subject(s): Insects; Night; Bugs; Bedtime NO GO, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said a simpering butterfly, sipping a rose Last Line: Quoth the impudent chap. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Spiders; Bugs NURSERY RHYMES FOR THE TENDER-HEARTED (DEDICATED TO DON MARQUIS): 4, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I knew a black beetle, who lived down a drain Last Line: And he'll never come bathing with me any more. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Beetles; Insects; Marquis, Don (1878-1937); Bugs ODE TO A BUTTERFLY, by THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou spark of life that wavest wings of gold Last Line: Symbol of life, me with such faith endow! Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Transcendentalism; Bugs 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 ONLY MY OPINION, by MONICA SHANNON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is a caterpillar ticklish? Subject(s): Animals; Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs ORIENT, by ARMANDE ALICE FAIR Poem Text First Line: White butterflies flitting across the face Last Line: In a gauze of opal lure. Subject(s): Asia; Butterflies; Insects; Moon; Stars; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Bugs PLASTIC BEATITUDE, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our neighbors, the pazzotis, live in a long Last Line: To their last temptation. Subject(s): Blessings; Electricity; Extermination & Exterminators; Family Life; Insects; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Neighbors; Toys; Women In The Bible; Relatives; Bugs; Virgin Mary 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 POETIC EPIGRAMS: 8. KINDRED, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The butterfly and flower Last Line: By earth in the same hour. Subject(s): Butterflies; Flowers; Insects; Bugs PSYCHE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The butterfly the ancient grecians made Last Line: And to deform and kill the things whereon we feed. Variant Title(s): The Butterfly Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs ROOTS AND BRANCHES, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Sail, monarchs, rising and falling Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs SCARABAEUS SISYPHUS, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've watched thee, scarab! Yea, an hour in vain Last Line: Life's stone, recoiling from the alps of time? Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Beetles; Insects; Sisyphus; Bugs SCUFFLED DUST, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lean white birches of the moon Last Line: What came after I do not know. Subject(s): Apple Blossoms; Apples; Fruit; Insects; Spiders; Virtue; Bugs SECOND LIFE, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After life's departing sigh Last Line: Come and catch that butterfly!' Subject(s): Butterflies; Death; Insects; Reincarnation; Dead, The; Bugs; Transmigration; Pretas SEMBLANCE: SCREENS, by LIZ WALDNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A moth lies open and lies Subject(s): Insects; Bugs SHANGHAI INSECT MARKET, by CLYDE EDGAR KEELER Poem Text First Line: Over there let us stop / at the insect mart Last Line: A hollow ball to house two great green katydids. Subject(s): Insects; 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 SIGNS OF SPRING, by THERESA S. YORK Poem Text First Line: When the nearest hills choose pastel green Last Line: It's spring. Subject(s): Insects; Spring; Bugs SILKWORMS AND SPIDERS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The worm long fosters his transforming sleep Last Line: And we must rest, till god shall tell us more. Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Worms; 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 SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 39, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brown and furry Last Line: To live again a butterfly. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): The Caterpillar Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs SINGING DEATH, by CHARLES R. MURPHY Poem Text First Line: Brown, brown, brown, brown, gold Last Line: Singing death.) Subject(s): Insects; Bugs SINGING INSECTS, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: Semi - singing insects - boys catch in june Last Line: And as the caged insects sing. Subject(s): Insects; Marriage; Bugs; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SNARES, by FLORENCE GRAUEL MILLER Poem Text First Line: I watched a spider weave his web Last Line: Came flying to his lair. Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Trapping; Bugs SOLOMON AND THE ANTS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the kings of fallen earth Last Line: The strongest of the strong. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Bugs SONG, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The butterflies that are the snow's own hue Last Line: O blossom of my soul! Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Butterflies; Desire; Flight; Insects; Love; Flying; Bugs SONG FOR THE CUCUYO, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Caught them at sundown in the tall grass Variant Title(s): Song To The Cucuyo Subject(s): Insects; Singing & Singers; Bugs SONNET TO A BUTTERFLY, by HENRY WILLIAM HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forth to thy bright existence of an hour Last Line: Never to sorrow more, nor doubt, nor die? Alternate Author Name(s): Forester, Frank Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs SONNET TO THE JUNEBUG, I, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You make me je's a little nervouser Last Line: Up that eternal buzzin' serenade! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Insects; Bugs SPIDER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Anansi, black busybody of the folktales Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Africa; Fables; Insects; Spiders; Allegories; Bugs SPIDER AND FLY, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once when morn was flowing in Last Line: Sitting on her silver stairs. Subject(s): Flies; Insects; Spiders; Bugs SPIDERS, by COLETTE M. BURNS Poem Text First Line: With space their blackboard, spiders teach Last Line: Mathematics of the universe. Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs 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 STUDY FOR A GEOGRAPHICAL TRAIL; 4. NEW JERSEY, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So much depends on four butterflies Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; 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 AMBITIOUS ANT, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ambitious ant would a-travelling go Last Line: "how glad I am that I crossed the sea!" Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Bugs THE ANT, by AL-TULAITILI Poem Text First Line: Slender her flank Last Line: Of a learned judge. Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Bugs THE ANT, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forbear, thou great good husband, little ant Last Line: Thinking to save all, we cast all away. Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Bugs THE ANT-HEAP, by ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High in the woodland, on the mountain-side Last Line: The pity they deny. Alternate Author Name(s): Benson, A. C. Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Bugs THE ANT-LION, by THOMAS MILLER (1807-1874) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By digging a hole in the sand Last Line: And both of us live by slaughter and strife. Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Wasps; Bugs; Yellow Jackets 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-WISP, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our window-panes enthral our summer bees Last Line: Against the very hand of providence. Subject(s): Insects; 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 BENUMBED BUTTERFLY, by AUBREY DE VERE Poem Text First Line: Beautiful creature, how I envy thee! Last Line: Ingrate! Have chattered more than thou art worth. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; 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 BUTTERFLIES OF TAIWAN, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: I said: because it is the case that Last Line: Or curious, like the butterflies of taiwan? Subject(s): Butterflies; Happiness; Insects; Taiwan; Wings; Joy; Delight; Bugs; Formosa THE BUTTERFLY, by MARGARET AVISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An uproar Last Line: Towards the subhuman swamp of under-dark? Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Those things / which you so laughingly call Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the gorgeous butterfly / in the jubilee of spring Last Line: By perfidious pleasure's thorn! Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY, by ALICE ARCHER SEWALL JAMES Poem Text First Line: I am not what I was yesterday Last Line: Take care of me. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's just a monstrous ant with paper wings Last Line: And haven't seen it make a bit of butter. Subject(s): Butterflies; Children; Insects; Childhood; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY, by ALPHONSE MARIE LOUIS DE PRAT LAMARTINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Coming with the daffodils and dying with the roses Last Line: Bears it home to heaven again for lasting joy and deep. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY, by ADELAIDE O'KEEFFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The butterfly, an idle thing Last Line: Nor be a butterfly. Alternate Author Name(s): O'keefe, Adelaide Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: He loitered on from flower to flower Last Line: The monarch of a peaceful breast. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Nature; Wings; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The butterfly from flower to flower Last Line: The very glory he had sought. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watched to-day a butterfly Last Line: Have raised my thoughts from earth to god. Subject(s): Butterflies; Death; Earth; Insects; Life; Time; Dead, The; World; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leafless, stemless, floating flower Last Line: Bearing blossoms of thy kind. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alexis seized a prisoned butterfly Last Line: Claim to such trust, - all nature's underling?' Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY AND THE ROSE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She pluck'd a wild wood-rose, and fondly strove Last Line: To hold it, thou hast lightly thrown away! Subject(s): Butterflies; Flowers; Insects; Roses; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY'S BALL, by THOMAS ROSCOE Poem Text First Line: Come, take up your hats, and away let us haste Last Line: His merry companions return'd in a throng. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY'S BALL, by WILLIAM CALDWELL ROSCOE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, take up your hats, and away let us haste Last Line: His merry companions returned in a throng. Subject(s): Insects; Parties; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY'S FIRST FLIGHT, by AGNES STRICKLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast burst from thy prison Last Line: To pleasure once more. Subject(s): Butterflies; Flight; Insects; Flying; 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 CATERPILLAR, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under this loop of honeysuckle Last Line: And eat, eat, eat -- as one ought to eat. Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs THE CATERPILLAR, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, that I too could go to sleep Last Line: The peach-blooms and the daffodils! Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Butterflies; Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs THE COQUETTE (A VILLANELLE), by EUGENIA BRAGG SMITH Poem Text First Line: I see a dainty butterfly Last Line: She calls her mate in passing by. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE CORAL INSECT, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Toil on! Toil on! Last Line: While the wonder and pride of your works remain. Subject(s): Coral; Insects; Sea; Bugs; Ocean 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 DEAD BUTTERFLY, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now I see its whiteness Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE DOODLE-BUGS'S CHARM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When uncle sidney he comes Last Line: "come up an' git some bread!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Family Life; Gardens & Gardening; Insects; Relatives; Bugs THE EARLY BUTTERFLY, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Trusting the first warm day of spring Last Line: "that hush'd in grim repose, expect their evening prey." Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE EXAMPLE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here's an example from a butterfly Last Line: To make a stone a flower. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE EXHAUSTED BUG; FOR MY FATHER, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here is a tiny., hard-shelled thing. He is the length of a child's tooth, and Last Line: Father stretched out in his coffin. Subject(s): Beetles; Curiosities & Wonders; Death; Fathers & Sons; Insects; Enigmas; Oddities; Dead, The; Bugs THE FLOWER AND THE BUTTERFLY, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once to the butterfly a floweret sighed Last Line: "the sky—the mead." Subject(s): Butterflies; Flowers; Insects; Bugs THE FLOWER SPIDER, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You've read of a spider, I suppose Last Line: The spider's nature goes! Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poetry of earth is never dead Last Line: The grasshopper's among some grassy hills. Variant Title(s): On The Grasshopper And Cricket Subject(s): Crickets; Environment; Fields; Grasshoppers; Insects; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Bugs THE GRASSHOPPER AND THE CRICKET, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green little vaulter in the sunny grass Last Line: In doors and out, summer and winter, mirth. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Variant Title(s): To Grasshopper And Cricket;on The Grasshopper And Cricket;to The Grasshopper And The Cricket Subject(s): Crickets; Grasshoppers; Insects; Bugs THE GROATSWORTH OF WIT: A CONCEITED FABLE OF THE OLD COMEDIAN AESOP, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An ant and a grasshopper, walking together on a Last Line: Without remedy. Subject(s): Aesop (620?-560? B.c); Ants; Fables; Grasshoppers; Insects; Allegories; Bugs 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 HEART, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A stumblebum in scree Last Line: With his throat cut Subject(s): Butterflies; Hummingbirds; Insects; 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 INTERLUDE, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Much of transfiguration that we hear Subject(s): Insects; Death; Religion; Transfiguration; Bugs; Dead, The; Theology 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 JEWELS, by MARION J. HEXT Poem Text First Line: This morning, after last night's rain Last Line: They were drops of dew in a spider's web. Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; 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 LOST BUTTERFLY, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Like some rare flower endowed Last Line: The welcome music of immortal years. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Nature; 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 MEMORY, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down the little, crooked street that went to meet the sea Last Line: The blowing grass, the torn nets -- and one girl's scorning. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Exiles; Insects; Bugs THE MILLIPEDE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oi! Oi! Noli me tangere, no argument Subject(s): Insects; Bugs THE MINIMAL, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I study the lives on a leaf; the little Subject(s): Insects; Bugs THE MISTAKEN MOTH, by ? WEGENER Poem Text First Line: Mid the summer flush of roses Last Line: "butterfly!" Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Kisses; Women; Bugs THE ORPHIC SOUL, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I walk slowly along Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Self; Soul; Bugs 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 PARLOR AND THE FLY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Will you walk into the spider? Last Line: "he will have no room to spin." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs 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 POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 159, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On cold mountain there's a naked bug Last Line: Ready to strike troublesome foes Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Insects; Swords; Wisdom; Buddha; Buddhists; 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 SHEPHERD BOY (2), by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fly or beetle on their track Last Line: The summer long his whole employ -- Subject(s): Insects; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Bugs THE SILKWORM AND THE CATERPILLAR; FROM YRIARTE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a time -- if tales are true Last Line: The caterpillar of my story! Subject(s): Caterpillars; Criticism & Critics; Insects; 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, by EDWARD LITTLETON Poem Text First Line: Artist, that underneath my table / thy curious feature hast displayed Last Line: Ends both the spider and the poet. Subject(s): Animals; Butterflies; Insects; Spiders; Wings; Bugs THE SPIDER, by JANE TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, look at that great ugly spider!' said ann Last Line: "that a poor little spider is wiser than you. " Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; 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 SPIDER AND THE FLY, by MARY HOWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Will you walk into my parlor?' said the spider to the fly Last Line: The fly. Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Flattery; Insects; Spiders; Vanity; Bugs THE SPIDER WEB, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: To-night I am very happy Last Line: I have taken long in the spinning. Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Weariness; Bugs; Fatigue THE SPINNERS, by ANNE GOODWIN WINSLOW Poem Text First Line: Spider, spinning in the sun Last Line: That flies no more by day! Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs THE STUDY OF A SPIDER, by JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From holy flower to holy flower Last Line: And from their gibbets take thy dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Lancaster, William P.; Preston, George F.; De Tabley, 3d Baron; De Tabley, Lord Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs THE SUGAR-CANE: CRESCENDO, by JAMES GRAINGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And pity the poor planter when the blast Last Line: Bugs of uncommon shape. Subject(s): Fields; Insects; Nature; Plague; Plantation Life; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; 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 TICKLE RHYME, by IAN SERRAILLIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who's that tickling my back?' said the wall Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs THE TOAD AND SPIDER; A DUEL, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a day when the dog-star Last Line: Of his fair aid a monument. Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Toads; 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 WEDDING, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At noon, tithonus, withered by his singing Last Line: Woke from the nap, forgetting him; and ate him. Subject(s): Insects; Love - Nature Of; Mythology - Classical; Spiders; Bugs THE WHIMS OF THE AMOROUS; A TRUE STORY, REPATED AFTER OLD DOCUMENTS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the hedge the beetle sits sadly Last Line: Poor bride has long been dead and rotten. Subject(s): Insects; Love; Marriage; Bugs; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 WOODTICKS, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's things out in the forest Last Line: A-crawlin' thro' yer hair. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Forests; Insects; Spiders; Trees; Worms; Woods; 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 THOMAS MERTON AND THE WINTER MARSH, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I went out of the house to smoke. A thousand Last Line: And mother of christ. Subject(s): Ascension Day; Cold; Insects; Merton, Thomas (1915-1968); Spiders; Bugs THREE ANIMALS: THE BUTTERFLY, by RON PADGETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The butterfly / flies up like pow Last Line: "like a woman’s face to pow Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THREE BUGS, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three little bugs in a basket Last Line: And leave no bug in the cold! Subject(s): Insects; Bugs THREE LEIS FOR A PARTING, by WALKER WINSLOW Poem Text First Line: Not of the flower of ginger, nor of gardenias Last Line: Pigments the pastels of our waters at dusk. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THREE PENGUIN CATERPILLARS, by CATHERINE B. TOOSEY Poem Text First Line: Three caterpillars poised: together straight Last Line: Erect, with white broad breasts and flippers stretched. Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects; 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 BUTTERFLY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Butterfly Last Line: While with thee I wander! Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Nature - Religious Aspects; Wandering & Wanderers; Bugs; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes TO A BUTTERFLY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little fluttering beauteous fly Last Line: For short thy moments of delight. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs TO A BUTTERFLY, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Already in midsummer / I miss your feet and fur Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs TO A BUTTERFLY (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've watched you now a full half-hour Last Line: As twenty days are now. Variant Title(s): To A Butterfly Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Time; Bugs TO A BUTTERFLY IN A WINDOW, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Escaped thy place of wintry rest Last Line: And all thou know'st of life be good. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs TO A CHALK-BLUE, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Butterflies, butterflies, delicate downy ones Last Line: Oh, bold little, old little, blue bit of june! Subject(s): Blue (color); Butterflies; Insects; Bugs TO A GREEN-CHAFER, ON A WHITE ROSE, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You dwell within a lovely bower Last Line: With baseness and ingratitude. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Beetles; Insects; Bugs 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 LOUSE, ON SEEING ONE ON A LADY'S BONNET AT CHURCH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ha! Whare ye gaun, ye crowlin ferlie! Last Line: And ev'n devotin! Subject(s): Insects; Lice; 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 SPIDER, by JESSIE GRAY SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: Oh king of silken fabrics, filmy fine Last Line: What priceless lessons to mankind are taught. Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs TO A SPIDER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spider! Thou need'st not run in fear about Last Line: I spin my brains. Subject(s): Insects; Poetry & Poets; Spiders; Bugs TO A STEAM ROLLER, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The illustration Last Line: The congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Steamrollers; 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 AN INSECT, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love to hear thine earnest voice Last Line: Than many a kate has done. Variant Title(s): Katydid Subject(s): Insects; Katydids; Bugs TO MRS. PRIESTLEY, WITH SOME DRAWINGS OF BIRDS AND INSECTS, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Amanda bids; at her command again Last Line: Yet far, far dearer were the name of friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Drawing; Birds; Insects; Bugs 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 BURNIE BEE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blithe son of summer, furl thy filmy wing Last Line: Fit for the spring that waits beyond the tomb. Subject(s): Future Life; Insects; Ladybirds; Nature - Religious Aspects; Spring; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bugs; Ladybugs TO THE BUTTERFLY, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Child of the sun! Pursue thy rapturous flight Last Line: To burst a seraph in the blaze of day! Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs TO THE LADY-BIRD, by CATHERINE ANNE DORSET Poem Text First Line: Oh! Lady-bird, lady-bird, why dost thou roam Last Line: No more from your nest, and your children to roam. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Catherine Anne Subject(s): Insects; Ladybirds; Bugs; Ladybugs TO THE LADYBIRD, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home Last Line: The warming pan. Variant Title(s): "the Ladybird;""ladybug, Ladybug""; Subject(s): Insects; Ladybirds; Bugs; Ladybugs 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 TO THE SPIDER, by THOMAS RUSSELL (1762-1788) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ingenious insect, but of ruthless mould Last Line: Then most delighted, when his prey is man. Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs TRANSFORMATION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The butterflies are buttercups, wind-blown Last Line: Are butterflies flight-weary, seeking rest. Subject(s): Butterflies; Fields; Insects; Summer; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Bugs TRIVIAL DETAIL, by VIOLET HELEN FRIEDLAENDER Poem Text First Line: Floating on the water in the a.R.P. Bucket Last Line: Extraordinarily happy. Subject(s): Insects; Ladybirds; Life; War; Bugs; Ladybugs 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 TWO VOYAGERS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two butterflies went out at noon Last Line: Report was not to me. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs UP THE DARK VALLEY, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the lean road looping the narrow river Last Line: The birds of darkness sang back every call Subject(s): Flies; Insects; Locusts; Spiders; 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 UPON A SPIDER CATCHING A FLY, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou sorrow, venom elf Last Line: For joy. Subject(s): Flies; Insects; Puritans In Literature; Spiders; Bugs WALNUTS, by OUIDA LOUISE CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: Walnuts must be cocoons Last Line: A butterfly. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Walnuts; Bugs 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 WEBS, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I weave a web of song to snare Last Line: Will flash a word, a song, a wing. Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Weaving & Weavers; 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, by MINNIE S. HUNTER Poem Text First Line: A butterfly with velvet wings that go Last Line: One blew down and remained to slumber. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; 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 WINTER BUTTERFLIES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The snowflakes flutter all around Last Line: To visit boys and girls they love. Subject(s): Butterflies; Children; Insects; Snow; Childhood; 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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