"Earth is a waxen cell of the world comb"
Valentine, Dickinson, Toomer, Digges, Baker, Harpo
Jean Valentine:
Emily Dickinson:
I stole them from / a Bee - / Because - Thee - / Sweet plea - / He pardoned me - Emily
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Jean Toomer:
Deborah Digges:
LaVern Baker:
Slim Harpo:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNYoELJ7nOI
also, (though I'm sure there's whole books of poems with bees) this part from Antonio Machado's Anoche Cuando DormÃa:
Anoché cuando dormia
soñé bendita illusion!
que una colmena tenÃa
dentro de mi corozon;
y las doradas abejas
iban fabricando en él
blanca cera y dulce miel