Lizette Woodworth Reese Poetry

Lizette Woodworth Reese was born in Maryland, in the United States. She spent 50 years as an English teacher in Baltimore and published her first poetry collection in 1887. It solidified her reputation and was followed by eight more volumes of poetry and long narrative poems. She also published an autobiographical novel.

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Telling the Bees

‘Telling the Bees’ by Lizette Woodworth Reese describes how one speaker finds out about the loss of her mother from “Bathsheba / Telling the bees.”

Bathsheba came out to the sun,

Out to our wallèd cherry-trees;

The tears adown her cheek did run,

Bathsheba standing in the sun,

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