William Shakespeare
(From The Tempest)
Where the bee sucks, there suck I:
In a cowslip's bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On the bat's back I do fly
After summer merrily:
Merrily, merrily, shall I live now,
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
This poem appears in Junior Great Books Read-Aloud Program, Dragon Series, Copyright © 1990 by The Great Books Foundation. More poems