The Goldfinch Feast on the Sunflowers
by Nancy Griswold
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The Goldfinch Feast on the Sunflowers
Artist
Nancy Griswold
Medium
Photograph - Photography & Poem
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I enjoyed this large sunflower plant throughout the summer as it yielded hundreds of buds which attracted honey bees and also gold finches in the fall. I found a poem by Robert Frost which goes nice with this photo:
Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today,
and give us not to think so far away
as the uncertain harvest; keep us here
all simply in the springing of the year.
Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white
like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
and make us happy in the happy bees,
the swarm dilating round the perfect trees.
And make us happy in the darting bird
that suddenly above the bees is heard,
the meteor that thrusts in with needle bill,
and off a blossom in mid air stands still.
For this is love and nothing else is love,
the which it is reserved for God above
to sanctify to what far ends he will,
but which it only needs that we fulfill.
By Robert Frost
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January 12th, 2020
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