EducatorSharmin

   Selected Poems // Book-6  The revised 'Selected Poems' series has been compiled with the express purpose of bringing to our young learners works of classical and contemporary poets from all over the world, projecting a variety of ideas, emotions and themes, and helping them to explore nature and the animal kingdom and reflect on friendship, family and the human condition. Ornithology poem   by Eleanor Farjeon What’s ornithology? Pray can you tell? It’s hard to pronounce and it’s harder to spell— Yet that’s what you’re learning whenever you care To study the Birds of the Earth, Sea, and Air. There’s a long word To stand for a bird! For a Lark or a Sparrow its length is absurd! Eagles and Ostriches need no apology If you should label them as ornithology! But how can it fit The tiny Tom-Tit? The Finch. Wants a word that’s no more than an inch! Yet all the Birds of the East and the West, Whatever they be, and wherever they nest— The Vulture—the Hen— The Flamingo—...