This is the archive for Jewelry Poetry on the Beadshaper web site. To see the Beadshaper site, please click Beadshaper. The Poetry Piece for the month of May is a set of handcrafted flamework green glass beads with dichroic accents named for the poem, Overheard on a Salt Marsh, by Harold Munro (1879-1932). To see the beads click Beads
Nymph,nymph, what are your beads?
Green glass, goblin. Why do you stare at them?
Give them me.
No.
Then I will howl all night in the reeds,
Lie in the mud and howl for them.
Goblin, why do you love them so?
They are better than stars or water,
Better than voices of winds that sing,
Better than any man's fair daughter,
Your green glass beads on a silver ring.
Hush, I stole them out of the moon.
Give me your beads, I desire them so.
Give them me. Give them.
No.
