Joseph Skipsey (1832-1903). A Merry Bee. Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. 1922. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse

Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922.

A Merry Bee

By Joseph Skipsey (1832–1903)


A GOLDEN bee a-cometh
O’er the mere, glassy mere,
And a merry tale he hummeth
In my ear.

How he seized and kiss’d a blossom	5
From its true thorny tree,
Pluck’d and placed in Annie’s bosom,
Hums the bee!