Bees and flowers

Emily Dickenson 1830 –1886
Of the 1800 poems that she wrote, around 100 poems are about bees.

She was born and died in a yellow brick house in Amherst, Massachusetts that is now a museum to her life. I have been fascinated with the work that they have done to recreate and restore her garden.

She spent much of her life writing, gardening and observing nature.

These photos, with bees on flowers, caused me to pull my poetry books from my library shelves and read though Dickenson 's poems again, looking for some of my favorites that are about bees

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee.
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few.
Emily Dickenson

Fame is a bee. It has a song—/ It has a sting—/ Ah, too, it has a wing.Emily Dickenson

Bee! I’m expecting you!
Was saying Yesterday
To Somebody 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.
by Emily Dickenson