Butterfly Poems

Butterfly Poems

To a Butterfly, by William Wordsworth

Stay near medo not take thy flight!
A little l...

To a Butterfly II, by William Wordsworth

I've watch'd you now a full half-hour,
Self-p...

The Book of Thel, by William Blake

I The daughters of Mne Seraphim led round thei...

Europe: a Prophecy, by William Blake

Five windows light the cavern'd Man; thro' one ...

Reclining Nude, by Christine Ann Clatworthy

Splashes of umber –
hints of Prussian B...

Chuang Chou and the Butterfly, by Li Bai

Chuang Chou in dream became a butterfly,
And ...

The Orient, by Albert Samain

LIFE is a flower I scarcely breathe, for pain
...

The Butterfly, by Alphonse de Lamartine

Coming with the daffodils and dying with the ro...

Metamorphosis, by Anne Deborah Morgan

Hope stirs like a diminutive butterfly
In the ...

Sweet Serenity, by Anne Deborah Morgan

Halcyon days
In lush green meadows.   Ca...

The Dream of Chuang Tzu, by Arthur Guiterman

In life there's naught
That's true, but Thoug...

To a Butterfly, by C. B. Langston

Thou gaudy insect! Fickle wanderer!
Thou art a...

Wild Flowers, by C. B. Langston

My fancy's queen, the muse, one day,
Presse...

Butterfly Lesson, by C. J. Heck

Oh Mama look, a flutter-by,
her tiny hand he...

On the Way to School, by Charles Ghigna

I'll tell you why I'm tardy and I hope my excus...

Midsummer Morn, by Clara Marcelle Farrar Greene

A wondrous blue of summer sky,
A dream of fai...

Possession, by Clara Marcelle Farrar Greene

I I look upon the world, beloved,
Thy world...

Sweet Bells Jangled Out of Tune, by Clara Marcelle Farrar Greene

OPHELIA IN HAMLET. Adown the soft meadow, the...

A Flower of a Day, by Dinah Craik

Old friend, that with a pale and pensile grace...

Indian Summer, by Edna Dean Proctor

'Tis Indian Summer's richest, latest day;
Th...

Mariposa, by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Butterflies are white and blue
In this field w...

Arizona, by Elise Pumpelly Cabot

PART I: ARIZONA I MAN above himself looks dow...

Sky Lotus, by Elizabeth Coatsworth

Moon over Japan.
White butterfly moon!
The wa...

There Sang a Bird, by Francis Vielé-Griffin

Behind my father's house there sang a bird,
I...

The Reaper, by George Houghton

The wheat-stalks are heavy and white,
They sl...