Birds And Books
By Katharine Lee Bates
All day these ruby-throated humming-birds,
Illiberal elves,
Draw honey from the bee-balm at my door
And offer me no share.
All day the poets with melodious words
Delight themselves,
And of their graciousness my strength restore
For sorrow I must bear.
Source Book
Yellow Clover: A Book Of Remembrance
by Katharine Lee Bates
Copyright 1922
Published by E. P. Dutton & Company, New York
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