“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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“April Rain Song”

Let the rain kiss you.

Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops.

Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

 

The rain makes still pools on the side walk.

The rain makes running pools in the gutter.

The rain plays a little sleep-song on our roof at night—

 

And I love the rain.

 

Written by Langston Hughes  and illustrated by Brian Pinkney from The Dream Keeper and Other Poems

 

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