April Poetry

Week 1 Spring Tree Week

Oh, Fair to See by Christina Rossetti

Oh, fair to see Blossom-laden cherry tree,

Arrayed in sunny white;

An April day's delight,

Oh, fair to see!

Oh, fair to see

Fruit-laden cherry tree,

With balls of shining red

Decking a leafy head,

Oh, fair to see!

Week 2 Plant Life Cycle

Flower in the Crannied Wall By Alfred Tennyson

Flower in the crannied wall,

I pluck you out of the crannies,

I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,

Little flower-but if I could understand

What you are, root and all, all in all,

I should know what God and man is.

Week 3 Wildflowers

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 2, Scene 1

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,

Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,

Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,

With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.

Week 4 Grasses

The Grass Has So Little to Do by Emily Dickinson

The grass has so little to do, -

A sphere of simple green,

With only butterflies to brood,

And bees to entertain,

And stir all day to pretty tunes

The breezes fetch along,

And hold the sunshine in its lap

And bow to everything;

And thread the dews all night, like pearls,

And make itself so fine, -

A duchess were too common

For such a noticing.

And even when it dies, to pass In odors so divine,

As lowly spices gone to sleep,

Or amulets of pine.

And then to dwell in sovereign barns,

And dream the days away, -

The grass so little has to do,

I wish I were the hay!