The Grasshopper

Happy insect, what can be

In happiness compared to thee?

Fed with nourishment divine,

The dewy morning’s gentle wine!

Nature waits upon thee still,

And thy verdant cup does fill;

‘Tis filled wherever thou dost tread,

Nature’s self’s thy Ganymede.

Thou dost drink, and dance, and sing,

Happier than the happiest king!

All the fields which thou dost see,

All the plants belong to thee;

All the summer hours produce,

Fertile made with early juice.

Man for thee does sow and plow,

Farmer he, and landlord thou!

Thou dost innocently enjoy;

Nor does thy luxury destroy.

The shepherd gladly heareth thee,

More harmonious than he.

Thee country hinds with gladness hear,

Prophet of the ripened year!

Thee Phoebus loves, and does inspire

Phoebus is himself thy sire.

To thee, of all things upon earth,

Life is no longer than thy mirth.

Happy insect! happy thou,

Dost neither age nor winter know;

But when thou’st drunk, and danced, and sung

Thy fill, the flowery leaves among,

(Voluptuous and wise withal,

Epicurean animal!)

Sated with thy summer feast,

Thou retir’st to endless rest.

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Poems in English 

• Conversation Among The Ruins by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Circus In Three Rings by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Child’s Park Stones by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• “Célibataire” by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• By Candlelight by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Burning The Letters by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Bluebeard by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Blackberrying by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Black Rook In Rainy Weather by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Black Pine Tree In An Orange Light by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Battle-Scene From the Comic Operatic Fantasy The Seafarer by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Balloons by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Ariel by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Apprehensions by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• An Appearance by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Amnesiac by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• All The Dead Dears by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Aftermath by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Admonition by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Above The Oxbow by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath

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Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.

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