Sidney Lanier

Sidney Lanier

Summary

Portrait of Sidney Lanier Sidney Lanier The Bee

Mine ear, though fain, had pain to follow:
‘Tara!’ it twanged, ‘tara-tara!’ it blew,
Yet wavered oft, and flew
Most ficklewise about, or here, or there,
A music now from earth and now from air.
But on a sudden, lo!
I marked a blossom shiver to and fro
With dainty inward storm; and there within
A down-drawn trump of yellow jessamine
A bee
Thrust up its sad-gold body lustily,
All in a honey madness hotly bound
On blissful burglary.
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