A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year by Jane McMorland Hunter

Author:Jane McMorland Hunter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Batsford

William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

13 JULY

The Little Crocodile

How doth the little crocodile

Improve his shining tail

And pour the waters of the Nile

On every shining scale!

How cheerfully he seems to grin,

How neatly spreads his claws,

And welcomes little fishes in

With gently smiling jaws!

Lewis Carroll (1832–1898)

14 JULY

Jenny Wren

Her sight is short, she comes quite near;

A foot to me’s a mile to her;

And she is known as Jenny Wren,

The smallest bird in England. When

I heard that little bird at first,

Methought her frame would surely burst

With earnest song. Oft had I seen

Her running under leaves so green,

Or in the grass when fresh and wet,

As though her wings she would forget.

And, seeing this, I said to her –

‘My pretty runner, you prefer

To be a thing to run unheard

Through leaves and grass, and not a bird!’

’Twas then she burst, to prove me wrong,

Into a sudden storm of song;

So very loud and earnest, I

Feared she would break her heart and die.

‘Nay, nay,’ I laughed, ‘be you no thing

To run unheard, sweet scold, but sing!

O I could hear your voice near me,

Above the din in that oak tree,

When almost all the twigs on top

Had starlings chattering without stop.’

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