Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“The bee is not afraid of me, I know the butterfly; The pretty people in the woods Receive me cordially.”
- Date
- 1890
Meaning of “The bee is not afraid of me, I…”
The speaker imagines an easy welcome among bees, butterflies and woodland life, turning attention to small creatures into a playful form of belonging in nature.
Where does it come from?
Poem in Poems: First Series (1890), represented as “The Bee Is Not Afraid of Me” for source disambiguation; Project Gutenberg #12242. The title is an editorial first-line identifier.
