I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree
Yesterday I stepped out into my small side yard and heard a very loud buzzing sound. First I thought, “what kind of power tool is that?”. I then looked up at the two plum trees in my neighbor’s yard, and was amazed to see that they were filled with bees.
I told my coworker Amy about it, and she said my story reminded her of the poem, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by William Butler Yeats. One of the lines in the poem is “And live alone in the bee-loud glade”.
You can find this poem full text in our LitFinder database. (You will need your library card to log in.)
http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE|LTF0000790212WK&v=2.1&u=corvallis1&it=r&p=LITF&sw=w
And because my librarian brain cannot help it, here are a bunch of other related items you can get with your library card.
I. Click here to find books by William Butler Yeats
II. For nonfiction books on bees check the shelves at the following Dewey Decimal numbers:
595.799 (bees as a biological topic)
638.1 (beekeeping)
III. For bees in music see our Classical Music Database for “The Flight of the Bumblebee”. (You’ll need your card to log in.)
http://corvallis.classical.com/permalink/recording/2147500482/
Composer: Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 – 1908)
Track: The Tale of Tsar Saltan.
Mvt.3: The flight of the bumblebee
IV. If you want the sound of the real thing see our sound effect CDs with bee sounds: Sound Effect CDs
V. And don’t miss bees in fiction and film…
I could go on with this tangent but I probably should get back to the other items on my to-do list.
Posted by Sharon, a second floor librarian
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