Robert Frost, “A Prayer in Spring” (1915)
Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All […]
Bees in Poems and Literature
Robert Frost, “The Black Cottage” (1915)
We chanced in passing by that afternoon To catch it in a sort of special picture Among tar-banded ancient cherry trees, Set well back from […]
Isaac Watts, “How Doth the Little Busy Bee” or “Against Idleness and Mischief ” (1715)
How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower! How skilfully she builds her […]
William Butler Yeats, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” (1890)
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean rows will […]
Walt Whitman, “Bumble-Bees” (1892)
MAY-MONTH—month of swarming, singing, mating birds—the bumble-bee month—month of the flowering lilac—(and then my own birth-month.) As I jot this paragraph, I am out just […]
E.B. White, “Song of the Queen Bee” (1945)
“The breeding of the bee,” says a United States Department of Agriculture bulletin on artificial insemination, “has always been handicapped by the fact that the […]
Mark Twain, “The Bee”
It was Maeterlinck who introduced me to the bee. I mean, in the psychical and in the poetical way. I had had a business introduction […]