My shadow...Bed in the summer....(Poetry night with @famouzqueen)

Welcome to another night of poetry with your girl @famouzqueen..!!! #poetrynight is where you get to read your favorite stories and poems.

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The rainbow-fairies, The light hearted fairy

boats sail on the rivers, rain music

The rain, sweet and low

full moon, the night will always never stay day

OUR POEM FOR THE NIGHT

MY SHADOW
BED IN SUMMER

MY SHADOW

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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
And what can be the use of him is more than i can see;
He is very, very like me, from the heels up to the head;
And i see him jump before me, when i jump into my bed.
The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow,
Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow;

For he sometimes shoots up taller, like an india-rubber ball;
And he sometimes gets so little, that there's none of him at all.
He hasn't got a notion of how children ought to play,
And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way.
He stays so close beside me, he's a coward, you can see;
I'd think shame to stick to Nursie as that shadow sticks to me!

One morning very early, before the sun was up,
I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup;
But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy head,
Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed!.

BED IN SUMMER

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This poem has some interesting things about England to tell those that have never been there. In the winter months, around Christmas, it is dark until about 8 o'clock in the morning. In the summer months, June to september, it is light about 9 o'clock at night.

In winter i get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way
I have to go to bed by day.

I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people's feet
Still going past me in the street.

And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And i should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?

Thanks for your time...
still your girl
@famouzqueen