Bee! I'm Expecting You!

Bee! I'm expecting you!
Was saying Yesterday
To Somebody you know
That you were due -

The Frogs got Home last Week -
Are settled, and at work -
Birds, mostly back -
The Clover warm and thick -

You'll get my Letter by
The seventeenth; Reply
Or better, be with me -
Yours, Fly.

“Bee! I'm Expecting You” is from a set of three poems of Emily Dickinson
composed by Emma Lou Diemer.

“Two Poems by Emily Dickinson”
I Suppose The Time Will Come
The Birds Begun At Four O'clock

“Bee! I'm Expecting You!”

When performing the entire set, it is suggested that “Bee! I'm Expecting You!” should
be placed as the second of the three poems.

recording performed by the 2010 Deleware Children's Honors Choir
Mary Goetze, conductor

Click here to see a sample.

Click here to listen to a recording (MP3).