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    This poem describes the Pleiades constellation as seen from a child's perspective. It notes that the stars are not visible during the day but are plainly seen at night, like old friends. The poem compares the Pleiades stars to a swarm of bees and suggests they may be toy jackstones left behind by a nice little angel boy to play with later. The child wishes to play with the angel boy and thinks it would be fun to have stars as toys.

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    This poem describes the Pleiades constellation as seen from a child's perspective. It notes that the stars are not visible during the day but are plainly seen at night, like old friends. The poem compares the Pleiades stars to a swarm of bees and suggests they may be toy jackstones left behind by a nice little angel boy to play with later. The child wishes to play with the angel boy and thinks it would be fun to have stars as toys.

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    CONTENTS

    The Pleiades...................................................................................................... 4
    The Happy Farmer.......................................................................................... 5
    The Hayloft....................................................................................................... 6
    Try, Try Again.................................................................................................. 7
    The Spider and the Fly.................................................................................... 8
    Our House...................................................................................................... 10
    The Wind........................................................................................................ 11
    Untitled........................................................................................................... 12
    All Things Bright and Beautiful.................................................................. 13
    The Lamb........................................................................................................ 14
    Out in the Fields With God.......................................................................... 15
    The Grasshopper........................................................................................... 16
    There Is No Frigate Like a Book.................................................................. 17
    I Never Saw a Moor...................................................................................... 18
    To Think.......................................................................................................... 19
    Shaker Poem................................................................................................... 20
    The Nightingale and the Glow-worm........................................................ 21
    The Barefooted Friar..................................................................................... 22
    England’s Sovereigns in Verse..................................................................... 24
    Robin Hood and the Ranger........................................................................ 26
    Time, You Old Gypsy Man.......................................................................... 30
    The Wooing of Sir Keith............................................................................... 31
    The Brave Old Oak........................................................................................ 36
    Columbus....................................................................................................... 38
    Paul Revere’s Ride......................................................................................... 40
    O Captain! My Captain!............................................................................... 46
    The Lady of Shalott....................................................................................... 47
    The Bells.......................................................................................................... 54
    Trees................................................................................................................ 58
    I Go Among Trees......................................................................................... 59
    Plant a Tree..................................................................................................... 60
    It Is Not Growing Like a Tree...................................................................... 62

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    The Pleiades
    Amy Lowell

    By day you cannot see the sky


    For it is up so very high.
    You look and look, but it’s so blue
    That you can never see right through.

    But when night comes it is quite plain,


    And all the stars are there again.
    They seem just like old friends to me,
    I’ve known them all my life you see.

    There is the dipper first, and there


    Is Cassiopeia in her chair,
    Orion’s Belt, the Milky Way,
    And lots I know but cannot say.

    One group looks like a swarm of bees,


    Papa says they’re the Pleiades;
    But I think they must be the toy
    Of some nice little angel boy.

    Perhaps his jackstones which today


    He has forgot to put away,
    And left them lying on the sky
    Where he will find them by and by.

    I wish he’d come and play with me.


    We’d have such fun, for it would be
    A most unusual thing for boys
    To feel that they had stars for toys!

    4 The Pleiades

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