YOU better not fool with a Bumblebee! -- Ef you don't think they can sting -- you'll see! They're lazy to look at, an' kind o' go Buzzin' an' bummin' aroun' so slow, An' ac' so slouchy an' all fagged out, Danglin' their legs as they drone about The hollyhawks 'at they can't climb in 'Ithout ist a-tumble-un out ag'in! Wunst I watched one climb clean 'way In a jimson-blossom, I did, one day, -- An' I ist grabbed it -- an' nen let go -- An' @3"Ooh-ooh! Honey! I told ye so!"@1 Says The Raggedy Man; an' he ist run An' pullt out the stinger, an' don't laugh none, An' says: "They @3has@1 be'n folks, I guess, 'At thought I wuz predjudust, more er less, -- Yit I still muntain 'at a Bumblebee Wears out his welcome too quick fer me!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON DIGITAL EXTREMITIES by FRANK GELETT BURGESS THE VOICE by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON THE STARLIGHT NIGHT by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS WORDLY WISE (5) by MOTHER GOOSE LET NO CHARITABLE HOPE by ELINOR WYLIE LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 5. THE LOCH by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM A SONG OF LABOUR; DEDICATED TO MY FELLOW-WORKERS WITH PICK AND SHOVEL by ALEXANDER ANDERSON |