Help: harvest festivals

Subject: harvest festivals
From: selby
Date: 21 Sep 00 - 02:14 PM

I am looking for harvest festival type poems from around the world to teach to 8 year olds. Thaks in anticipation Keith

Subject: RE: Help: harvest festivals
From: Peg
Date: 21 Sep 00 - 04:05 PM

Song Composed in August by Robert Burns...

Now westlin winds, and slaught'ring guns
Bring August's pleasant weather;
The moorcock springs, on whirring wings,
Amang the blooming heather;
Now waving grain, wide o'er the plain,
Delights the weary Farmer;
The moon shines bright, as I rove at night,
To muse upon my Charmer.

The Partridge loves the fruitfu' fells;
The Plover loves the mountains;
The woodcock haunts the lonely dells;
The soaring Heron the fountains:
Thro' lofty groves, the Cushat roves,
The path o'man to shun it;
The hazel bush o'erhangs the Thrush,
The spreading thorn the Linnet.

Thus ev'ry kind their pleasure find,
The savage and the tender;
Some social join, some leagues combine;
Some solitary wander:
Avaunt, away! the cruel sway,
Tyrannic man's dominion;
The Sportsman's joy, the murd'ring cry,
The flutt'ring, gory pinion!

But Peggy dear, the ev'ning's clear,
Swift flies the skimming Swallow;
The sky is blue, the fields in view,
All fading-green and yellow: Come let us stray our gladsome way,
And view the charms o' Nature:
The rustling corn, the fruited thorn
And every happy creature.

We'll gently walk, and sweetly talk,
While the silent moon shines clearly;
I'll clasp thy waist, and fondly prest,
Swear how I love thee dearly:
Not vernal show'rs to budding flow'rs,
Nor Autumn to the Farmer,
So dear can be, as thou to me,
My fair, my lovely Charmer!

he also did the "Corn Rigs and Barley Rigs" song...

Subject: RE: Help: harvest festivals
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 21 Sep 00 - 04:15 PM

How about Christina Rossetti's 'Who has seen the wind?' Very evocative of autumn, and one of my favourites.

LTS

Subject: RE: Help: harvest festivals
From: Noreen
Date: 22 Sep 00 - 08:49 AM

Do you know the song 'Cauliflowers fluffy and cabbages green' which is ideal for this age? I know it's not a poem, but I'll try & find it if you want it.

Noreen

Subject: Lyr Add: MARIGOLD (partial)^^
From: Llanfair
Date: 22 Sep 00 - 06:55 PM

What about the lyrics to Steeleye Span's "Marigolds" one of my favourites.
When the marigold no longer blooms,
When summer sun is turned to gloom
See the forecast winter snow,
See the evergreen that lonely grows,
Move close to the fireplace, Neglect the garden
See the ground harden, at a ghostly pace.

There are two more verses if you want them.
regards, Bron.

Subject: RE: Help: harvest festivals
From: Gypsy
Date: 22 Sep 00 - 10:51 PM

The Harvest song, by George Lewellan, formerly of Clan Na Gael, currently with Around the Hearth.

Subject: RE: Help: harvest festivals
From: Gypsy
Date: 22 Sep 00 - 10:53 PM

I should never type when I am this tired. George LEVERTTE spelling incorrect, pronounciation is right.

Subject: RE: Help: harvest festivals
From: selby
Date: 24 Sep 00 - 01:39 PM

Many thanks for the suggestions that are now filed away is there any one out there with suggestions from the Asian Continent Cheers Keith