Poetry Selection of The Week

“A Bird Came Down The Walk”

A bird came down the walk

He did not know I saw;

He bit an angleworm in halves

And ate the fellow, raw.

 

And then he drank a dew

From a convenient grass,

And then hopped sidewise to the wall

To let a beetle pass.

 

He glanced with rapid eyes

That hurried all abroad,

They looked like frightened beads, I thought;

He stirred his velvet head

 

Like one in danger; cautious,

I offered him a crumb,

And he unrolled his feathers

And rowed him softer home

 

Than oars divide the ocean,

Too silver for a seam,

Or butterflies, off banks of noon,

Leap, plashless, as they swim.

edited by Susan Snivley, Ph D and Illustrated  by Christine Davenier

from, Poetry For Kids Emily Dickinson

 

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