Bee! I'm Expecting You
Bee! I'm expecting you!
Was saying yesterday
To someone you know
That you were due.
The frogs got home last week,
Are settled, and at work;
Birds, mostly back,
The clover warm and thick.
You'll get my letter by
The seventeenth; reply
Or better, be with me,
Yours, Fly.
Emily Dickinson
Pedigree
The pedigree of honey
Does not concern the bee;
A clover, anytime to him
is aristocracy.
Emily Dickinson
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee . . .
Emily Dickinson
The Honey Bee
the honey bee is sad and cross
and wicked as a weasel
and when she berches on you boss
she leaves a little measel
Don Marquis from archy and mehitable
Combinations
A flea flew by a bee. The bee
To flee the flea flew by a fly.
The fly flew high to flee the bee
Who flew to flee the flea who flew
To flee the fly who now flew by.
The bee flew by the fly. The fly
To flee the bee flew by the flea.
The flea flew high to flee the fly
Who flew to flee the bee who flew
To flee the flea who now flew by.
The fly flew by the flea. The flea
To flee the fly flew by the bee.
The bee flew high to flee the flea
Who flew to flee the fly who flew
To flee the bee who now flew by.
The flea flew by the fly. The fly
To flee the flea flew by the bee.
The bee flew high to flee the fly
Who flew to flee the flea who flew
To flee the bee who now flew by.
The fly flew by the bee. The bee
To flee the fly flew by the flea.
The flea flew high to flee the bee
Who flew to flee the fly who flew
To flee the flea who now flew by.
The bee flew by the flea. The flea
To flee the bee flew by the fly.
The fly flew high to flee the flea
Who flew to flee the bee who flew
To flee the fly who now flew by.
A swarm of bees in May
Is worth a load of hay.
A swarm of bees in June
Is worth a silver spoon
A swarm of bees in July
Is not worth a fly.
PROVERBS:
"Busy as a bee."
"What is good for the swarm is not good for the bee."
"Where there is honey, there are bees."
"One bee is better than a handful of flies."
"Honey turns sour."
"The diligence of the hive produces the wealth of honey."
"A drop of honey will not sweeten the ocean."
"If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive."
The poem and proverbs are from Insect Fact and Folklore , by Lucy W. Clausen. Published by Collier Books, N.Y., 1954.