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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TELLING THE BEES (A COLONIAL CUSTOM), by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bathsheba came out to the sun Last Line: Telling the bees. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs | |||
BATHSHEBA came out to the sun, Out to our walled cherry-trees; The tears adown her cheek did run, Bathsheba standing in the sun, Telling the bees. My mother had that moment died; Unknowing, sped I to the trees, And plucked Bathsheba's hand aside; Then caught the name that there she cried Telling the bees. Her look I never can forget, I that held sobbing to her knees; The cherry-boughs above us met; I think I see Bathsheba yet Telling the bees. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE EXHAUSTED BUG; FOR MY FATHER by ROBERT BLY PLASTIC BEATITUDE by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR BEETLE LIGHT; FOR DANIEL HILLEN by MADELINE DEFREES CLEMATIS MONTANA by MADELINE DEFREES THOMAS MERTON AND THE WINTER MARSH by NORMAN DUBIE A CHRISTMAS FOLK-SONG by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE |
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