title: The Bees: Poems
author:  Carol Ann Duffy 
description: Wonderfully varied . . . [Some poems] will sting you to tears. The elegies for [her] much-missed mother are the most moving poems in the whole book. Cold' will stop your own heart for a moment. Duffy is brazen enough to write words such as besotted,' smitten' . . . and to bring it all off brilliantly. <i>The Guardian</i>
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  The White Bees and Other Poems
  
  
    
    
  THE WHITE BEES
  
  
    
    
  I. LEGEND  
    
  II. THE SWARMING OF THE BEES  
    
  III. LEGEND  
    
  NEW YEAR'S EVE
  
  
    
    
  SONGS FOR AMERICA
  
  
    
    
  SEA-GULLS OF MANHATTAN  
    
  URBS CORONATA  
    
  AMERICA  
    
  DOORS OF DARING  
    
  A HOME SONG  
    
  A NOON SONG  
    
  AN AMERICAN IN EUROPE  
    
  THE ANCESTRAL DWELLINGS  
    
  FRANCIS MAKEMIE  
    
  NATIONAL MONUMENTS
  
  
    
    
  IN PRAISE OF POETS
  
  
    
    
  MOTHER EARTH  
    
  MILTON  
    
  WORDSWORTH  
    
  KEATS  
    
  SHELLEY  
    
  ROBERT BROWNING  
    
  LONGFELLOW  
    
  THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH  
    
  I. BIRTHDAY VERSES  
    
  II. MEMORIAL SONNET  
    
  EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN
  
  
    
    
  LYRICS DRAMATIC AND PERSONAL
  
  
    
    
  LATE SPRING  
    
  NEPENTHE  
    
  HESPER  
    
  ARRIVAL  
    
  DEPARTURE  
    
  THE BLACK BIRDS  
    
  WITHOUT DISGUISE  
    
  GRATITUDE  
    
  MASTER OF MUSIC  
    
  STARS AND THE SOUL  
    
  TO JULIA MARLOWE  
    
  PAN LEARNS MUSIC  
    
  "UNDINE"  
    
  LOVE IN A LOOK  
    
  MY APRIL LADY  
    
  A LOVER'S ENVY  
  