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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BUTTERFLIES Matches Found: 228 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BUTTERFLY TALKS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text First Line: A butterfly talks to each flowefr Last Line: And I believe he thinks as well as some who write and read Subject(s): Butterflies A CHRYSALIS, by MARY EMILY NEELEY BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My little madchen found one day Last Line: Was but the radiant creature's flight! Subject(s): Butterflies; Death - Children; Death - Babies A CLEARING BY THE STREAM, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What impels the mind to soar forth? Subject(s): Butterflies A CONSERVATIVE, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The garden beds I wandered by Last Line: Into his chrysalis. Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs A SLEEPY SONG, by CHARLES BUXTON GOING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The butterfly swings on the flower alseep Last Line: Sleepy time, sleepy time now! Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Sleep; Bugs A WOOD ORCHID, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "a butterfly, wing-weary, came to find" Last Line: Of pink flushed wings -- and found them rooted there Subject(s): Butterflies;insects; Bugs ADVICE TO A BUTTERFLY, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aimless petal of the wind Subject(s): Butterflies AS FAR FROM PITY AS COMPLAINT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And blaze — the butterflies! Subject(s): Butterflies BEAUTIFUL WINGS, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful wings that beat the void Last Line: Builds heaven overhead. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Poetry & Poets; Bugs BLUE BUTTERFLY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lucy paused for the blue butterfly Last Line: Is whispering in my lonely walk anew. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Butterflies; England; Insects; Landscape; English; Bugs BLUE-BUTTERFLY DAY, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is blue-butterfly day here in spring Last Line: Where wheels have freshly sliced the april mire. Subject(s): Animals; Butterflies; Insects; Bugs BUTTERFLIES, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Butterflies have no wings Last Line: So that the butterfly shall be harder to swallow Subject(s): Animals; Butterflies; Insects; Survival; Wings BUTTERFLIES, by SAINT-PAUL ROUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time tells the rosary of the sun Last Line: Time tells the rosary of the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Paul Pierre; Roux, P0l Subject(s): Angels; Butterflies; Colors; Insects; Spring; Bugs BUTTERFLIES, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frail travellers, deftly flickering over the flowers Last Line: To know but this, the phantom glare of day. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs BUTTERFLY, by SUSAN ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: The fur on your wings makes you a lion Last Line: Underneath the leaves of the aspens. %green drunken curses. The sheep graze so quickly Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects BUTTERFLY, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: All the world is drowning in light and song Last Line: We'll put down together with a kiss Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects BUTTERFLY, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those things %which you so laughingly call Last Line: They give %my body Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects BUTTERFLY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To remind itself of something Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Nature BUTTERFLY, by ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bird of the moths! That radiant winf Last Line: The upper air, the fields that shine, %for ever in the light of god Alternate Author Name(s): Hawker Of Morwenstow; Hawker, R. S. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects BUTTERFLY, by KIM YONGT'AE Poem Source First Line: Past grassland Last Line: A piece of cloth enendingly transparent Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects BUTTERFLY, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Butterfly, the wind blows sea-ward, strong beyond the garden wall Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs BUTTERFLY, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Butterfly, the wind blows sea-ward, strong beyond the garden wall Last Line: It is enough! I saw you vanish into air Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects BUTTERFLY, by ALICE FREEMAN PALMER Poem Source First Line: I hold you at last in my hand Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects BUTTERFLY, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of living creatures most I prize Last Line: When mother leans to say good night Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs BUTTERFLY, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of living creatures most I prize Last Line: When mother leans to say good night Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects BUTTERFLY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Butterfly, butterfly, sipping the sand Last Line: That sand-filtered water tastes better to you? Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs BUTTERFLY, by TSUBOI SHIGEJI Poem Source First Line: In the sample room Last Line: So bright that it brought tears Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects BUTTERFLY (1), by HILDA CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Butterfly, / I like the way your wear your wings Last Line: And evening murmurs by. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs BUTTERFLY (2), by HILDA CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I walked through my garden Last Line: "I have to go the opposite way." Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs BUTTERFLY AND THE CATERPILLAR, by JOSEPH LAUREN Poem Source Subject(s): Butterflies; Caterpillars; Insects BUTTERFLY FARM, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: A bit absurd perhaps - these exotica of steaming Last Line: The wholeness of them, the ephemeral %lesson of their lives Subject(s): Butterflies; Farm Life; Heaven; Insects BUTTERFLY FROM SEOUL, by SONGDAECHUN Poem Source First Line: A butterfly from seoul breezed through Last Line: Of plum, he found no gesture for his joy Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects BUTTERFLY HAS FLOWN AWAY, by HWANG SOG'U Poem Source First Line: Into the yellow canna Last Line: Unoccupied as a house %except by a lonely girl Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects BUTTERFLY LAUGHTER, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the middle of our porridge plate Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Butterflies; Grandparents; Insects; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Bugs BUTTERFLY LAUGHTER, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the middle of our porridge plate Last Line: And perch on grandmother's lap Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Butterflies; Grandparents; Insects BUTTERFLY LULLABY, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My wild indigo dusky wing Subject(s): Butterflies BUTTERFLY MIND, by STEPHEN CRAIG KNAUTH Poem Source First Line: Little wood satyr Last Line: Here in the gragile confection of now Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Reason BUTTERFLY ON ROCK, by IRVING LAYTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The large yellow wings, black-fringed Last Line: And brought my hand down on the butterfly %and felt the rock move beneath my hand Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects BUTTERFLY SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Butterfly, butterfly, butterfly, butterfly Last Line: The clouds sprinkle down the rain Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects BUTTERFLY WINGS, by LOUISE CRENSHAW RAY Poem Text First Line: Some far off summer day, when you shall see Last Line: Oh, magic touch of dusky velvet wings! Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Magic; Poppies; Bugs BUTTERFLY'S BRAIN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Guides her to mexico Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animal Intelligence; Butterflies; Insects; Nature BUTTERFLY'S DREAM, by HANNAH FLAGG GOULD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A tulip, just opened, had offered to hold Last Line: But he crept under covert and died Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects BUTTERFLY'S NUMIDIAN GOWN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As if it undone Variant Title(s): Poem: 1387; Poem: 139 Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects BUTTERFLY, LEND ME YOUR WINGS I PRAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text Last Line: And I shall run after you through the glen Subject(s): Butterflies; Prayer CABBAGE BUTTERFLY, by HENRI COLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something like volcanic ash wafted in air. Last Line: To my brow, it was lighter than a dollar, %yet nourished me like manna where I stood. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects CHIPPEWA MUSIC: THE SONG OF BUTTERFLY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In the coming heat Last Line: I stood there Subject(s): Butterflies;insects; Bugs CLASSIFICATION, by DEBORAH WARREN Poem Source First Line: A certain fritillary wont to flit Last Line: The ordering: danaus plexippus %cannot describe a single butterfly Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects CLEMATIS MONTANA, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flocks of itinerant stars, flung from night's Last Line: Pool of the soul's wide summer. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Stars; Summer; Bugs CORN-GRINDING SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "butterflies, butterflies" Last Line: "butterflies, away!" Subject(s): Butterflies;fields;insects; Pastures;meadows;leas;bugs DEAD BUTTERFLY, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now I see its whiteness Last Line: Their rockgreen color and the bold %cut of its wings Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects DEFRAUDED I A BUTTERFLY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The lawful heir of thee Variant Title(s): Poem: 730; Poem: 85 Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects DIE LUAN HUA, by XU CAN Poem Source First Line: The butterfly does not love the flowers, though the flowers love the butterfly Last Line: Did you have to leave for the suzhou moon? Subject(s): Absence; Butterflies; Insects DISCLOSURE, by EDNA HOWE Poem Text First Line: The transient butterfly declares Last Line: And a diviner duty. Subject(s): Beauty; Butterflies; Insects; Bugs ENVOI, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fly, white butterflies, out to sea Last Line: Fly! Variant Title(s): White Butterflies Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Roundels; Bugs ESSAY ON INTELLIGENCE: FOUR, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: The male satin bowerbird builds a woven platform ten feet square, Last Line: (stacked), red fruits, blue feathers, black and orange bracket fungi, %butterflies. Variant Title(s): The Monarchs: 38: Esasay On Intelligence: Fou Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects FABLES: 1ST SER. 24. THE BUTTERFLY AND THE SNAIL, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All upstarts, insolent in place Last Line: Shall prove of caterpillar breed. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Snails; Bugs FLYING BLOSSOMS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: These butterflies, in twos and threes Last Line: Another crop of golden corn! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Wings; Bugs FLYING CROOKED, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The butterly, the cabbage-white Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs FLYING CROOKED, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The butterly, the cabbage-white Last Line: Even the arobatic swift %has not his flying-crooked gift Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects FLYING FLOWER, by ARAKIDA MORITAKE Poem Source First Line: Fallen flower I see Last Line: Ah! A butterfly Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects FOR A DESIGN OF A BUTTERFLY RESTING ON A SKULL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Creature of air and light Last Line: Thy hope calls heavenward from yon ruined cell. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs FROM COCOON FORTH A BUTTERFLY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Extinguished — in the sea Subject(s): Butterflies FRUIT TREE, by ZSOFIA BALLA Poem Source First Line: We urge on the fruit tree every spring Last Line: That butterfly's death - caterpillar -behold! Has given birth Subject(s): Butterflies; Fruit; Insects; Trees FUZZY WUZZY, CREEPY CRAWLY, by LILLIAN SCHULZ VANADA Poem Source Last Line: You were once a caterpillar, %wiggly, wiggly fellow Subject(s): Butterflies; Caterpillars; Insects HAIKU, by MATSUMOTO TAKASHI Poem Source First Line: On an onion tuft Last Line: Lonely, sad Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects HAIKU, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am you loving Last Line: Thisd noontime butterfly Subject(s): Shadows; Love; Butterflies HOOFER, by A. K. REDWING Poem Source First Line: Passing like a strauss waltz Last Line: In time to a much higher music Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects HYMN TO AURORA, by JULIO FLOREZ Poem Text First Line: Thou heavenly butterfly / whose great and tenuous wings Last Line: To ashes day shall burn! Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs I SAW A BLACK BUTTERFLY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Maybe it was an owl Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Nature I'D BE A BUTTERFLY, by THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd be a butterfly born in a bower Last Line: Dying when fair things are fading away Alternate Author Name(s): Bayly, Nathaniel Thomas Haynes Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs INSPIRATION, by ABBOTTE MCKINNON DOWNING Poem Text First Line: Lovely butterfly! / you're like a fleeting Last Line: Carefree and gay -- for one short span. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs KOROSTA KATZINA SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Yellow butterflies / over the blossoming virgin corn Last Line: All day shall come the rushing rain Subject(s): Butterflies;corn;fields;harvest;insects; Pastures;meadows;leas;bugs MARIPOSA, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Sometimes the day Last Line: Where I used to see her eyes Subject(s): Butterflies; Hearts; Insects; Love MARIPOSA, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Butterflies are white and blue Last Line: Death comes in a day or two. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Butterflies; Carpe Diem; Death; Insects; Dead, The; Bugs MEXICO IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY; FOUR STUDIES IN NATURALISM, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Butterflies, over the map Subject(s): Mexico; Butterflies; Mangoes; Soldiers; Nature; Old Age MOMENT, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two small white butterflies settle Last Line: In tune with things, staining the day Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs MOMENT, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two small white butterflies settle Last Line: In tune with things, staining the day Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCH BUTTERFLIES, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: During the usual dinner table argument Last Line: Loud hard talk during supper, %nothing to dislodge those fragile wings Subject(s): Butterflies; Dinners And Dining; Family Life; Insects MONARCHS, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All morning, as I sit thinking of you Last Line: The beauty and silence of the great migrations Subject(s): Longing; Love - Erotic; Butterflies; Migration MONARCHS: 1, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: They hang in santa cruz by the hundreds of thousands Last Line: The event is sufficiently rehearsed in the nerves Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 10, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: I love the way attention %becomes a magnet. My cousin writes Last Line: From scratch how to stay alive Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 11, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: After winter rain the eucalyptus Last Line: Limboed out in liquid nitrogen Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 12, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Nature was the object of my contemplation Last Line: Dense and porous as a luffa, %where 'I' take place? Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 13, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Given, a speck of magnetite %(ferrous oxide) is Last Line: The sympathy between iron %and the axis of the world Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 14, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: What did we want to see, %our faces pressed to glass Last Line: To see them do it, appetites %meeting in the neurologic sea Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 15, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Nature doesn't interest me,' said Last Line: With mind, with our minds. This will be paradise Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 16, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Let's say that the orchid %created Last Line: Our species has caused by calling %such misunderstandings love Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 17: ESSAY ON INTELLIGENCE: ONE, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: The female digger wasp %maintains several burrows Last Line: Without realizing it needs no food Variant Title(s): Essay On Intelligence: On Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 18, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: In mexico where the eastern monarchs Last Line: So clear in their direction Variant Title(s): Sanctuar Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Nature MONARCHS: 19, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: One summer I hiked from swallowtail light, a lazy morning photographing Last Line: Returning to the world again, concluding that without alienation there would be no consciousness Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 2, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: What does intelligence have to do with Last Line: On a street full of strangers to have his way Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 20, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: I remember the line from some classic Last Line: The rocks on which they'd grown Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 21, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: I'm writing from the botanic garden at the tilden park Last Line: Effortless and slo, their movement visible only in the form Variant Title(s): Tilden Par Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 22, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Redwoods. At night they take %the headlights without blinking Last Line: Their angel cells catch and release the light Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 23, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Sassafras and acrid leaf smell Last Line: I turn around and walk back to town Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 24: ESSAY ON INTELLIGENCE: TWO, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Language has been the central %event in human evolution Last Line: Wants to act and the newer part %insists on imagining action Variant Title(s): Essay On Intelligence: Tw Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 25, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: I dream I run a prison from which everyone escapes Last Line: I dream and the dream falls like ash into the day Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 26, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: A caterpillar spits out a sac of silk Last Line: And the butterfly has mastered flight Variant Title(s): Genetic Sequenc Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 27, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: I dream an infant falls %from the upper story Last Line: Brings out brandy, and %launches an all-night bash Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 28: ESSAY ON INTELLIGENCE: THREE, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: After many years of language training Last Line: Often chewing and swallowing %the tool as if it were food Variant Title(s): Essay On Intelligence: Thre Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 29, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: To what do I return %again in solitude Last Line: Where I sat beside the fire %that kept me warm Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 3, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Bypassing santa cruz %I descended toward monterey bay, a bedazzled traveler Last Line: Spirits in the luminous air Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 30, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: In one version of the postapocalyptic %planet, the weeping replicant Last Line: What she is or is not, because she loves him Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 31, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: On the first few nights I spent in scotland Last Line: My fire-grate each night. 'there, is it...?' Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 32, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Women alone %suffer two kinds of rigidity, the popular kind Last Line: Into a lover's lips, there's not %a woman's life she envies Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 33, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Butterflies rise in courtship, %a spiraling vertical dance Last Line: Their copulation is violent %and followed immediately by flight Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 34, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Stood in line to see the crown jewels Last Line: Debunking culture. The only monarch we %admire is a fragile, migratory bug Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 35, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Inasmuch as %the monarch butterflies Last Line: Funds to purchase land on which the butterflies spend the winter Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 36, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: At breakfast in the castle someone %reads aloud from the morning paper Last Line: Nor lies awake at night worrying %what kind of animal she should be Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 37, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: The face was shallow, sad, dusty %and sincere. He did not speak Last Line: So intense I expected to find %the carpet dusted with ash Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 39, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Weeds in the turrets of the fallen tower Last Line: Which are the chosen ones and which must die Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 4, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: On september 20, 1892, vast swarms Last Line: Toward their mexican sanctuary Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 41, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Butterfly and insect world %is a tawdry place Last Line: Giggling, and keeps on running, %as if he were one of their kind Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 42, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Glistening billows of broad-leafed green Last Line: By one incapable of telling lies Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 43, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Butterflies rise in courtship, but Last Line: He wounded self to draw a border %he would never cross Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 44, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Night. A woman betrayed Last Line: It could simply %have what it wants Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 45, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: When she asks did it happen, %he says no no of course not Last Line: He is innocent everything %justified by love Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 46: ESSAY ON INTELLIGENCE: SIX, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Inasmuch as awareness is a process Last Line: Could help us save the wild: eat this in remembrance of me Variant Title(s): Essay On Intelligence: Si Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 47, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: What he never understood %was that his lying Last Line: In her place, in hers and hers Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 48, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: I read about dido in high school %but then I was too worried Last Line: How to marry the city and the hearth Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 49, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: And in the miners' graveyard %so many stones cut with Last Line: From across the endless sea Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 5, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Today the news is of monkeys, %skulls opened to expose Last Line: Parents, children, cousins, and herself Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 50, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: I spent hours each day walking Last Line: Its trilling ritual %the warning I had come too close Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 51, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: But did I walk where he walked Last Line: Himself a caveman, one who was %tribally wise without being part of a tribe Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 52: ESSAY ON INTELLIGENCE: SEVEN, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: The broken-wing display of a plover Last Line: Sailing them across rivers %using their tails as rudders Variant Title(s): Essay On Intelligence: Seve Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 53, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: A favorite terror, one we practive Last Line: That even you aren't what you seem Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 54, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: What I wanted was guidance %a system in telemetry Last Line: Knowing nothing human %could be that sure Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 56, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Following the plume %of a dying campfire Last Line: Sufficient, I thought, %the work of this day Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 57, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: My firend draws an x- and y- axis %on my cocktail mapkin, trying Last Line: Of motion, so much he remembered Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 58, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Sleep, monarchs, rising and falling Last Line: Awakening in me soundings of the past %that name the future Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 59, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: I'll hold you booth in my heart' %I tell my friend, after hearing Last Line: The hand of death. Then he departs, %and I wake up, nearly well again Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 6, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: In the fifties version of invasion of the body snatchers Last Line: As the scientist's own lover goes mechanical in his arms Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 60, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: A mother who became an amateur lepidopterist Last Line: All the woman could know was that it rose Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 7, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Maybe the a.I. Guys are right. We're Last Line: Just help us to keep going. %the credits roll Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 8, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Two ducks flying against a smoky sky Last Line: A thing that will inflict no harm Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 9, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: It must be their waking time %wings open to the sun Last Line: Minds that blooming fields await them Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: ESSAY ON INTELLIGENCE: FIVE, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Unfold the cortex and lay it %on the table -- it's thin and smooth Last Line: In a language I can't read, but must believe Variant Title(s): Essay On Intelligence: Fiv Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MUIOPOTMOS, OR THE FATE OF THE BUTTERFLIE, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing of deadly dolorous debate Last Line: His bodie left the spectacle of care. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Butterflies; Fables; Insects; Mythology; Allegories; Bugs MY BUTTERFLY, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thine emulous fond flowers are dead, too Last Line: Under the eaves. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs MY BUTTERFLY, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: As the butterfly held in the mesh of the net Last Line: Which lies in the depth of a kiss! Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs MY COCOON TIGHTENS - COLORS TEASE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I take the clue divine Subject(s): Butterflies NAKED SEA BUTTERFLIES, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like you, I don't know what they are Last Line: Poetic dazzle of their name Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Science NATURE, FOR NATURE'S SAKE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White as white butterflies that each one dons Last Line: Without your father falleth to the ground.' Subject(s): Butterflies; God; Insects; Life; Nature; Bugs NEW SPRING: 7, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With the rose the butterfly's deep in love Last Line: The star of eve and butterfly. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs NO GO, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said a simpering butterfly, sipping a rose Last Line: Quoth the impudent chap. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Spiders; Bugs ODE TO A BUTTERFLY, by THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou spark of life that wavest wings of gold Last Line: Symbol of life, me with such faith endow! Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Transcendentalism; Bugs OF THE BOY AND THE BUTTERFLY, by JOHN BUNYAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Behold how eager this our little boy Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects ON DISCOVERING A BUTTERFLY, by VLADIMIR NABOKOV Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I found it in a legendary hand Last Line: Red label on a little butterfly Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects ORIENT, by ARMANDE ALICE FAIR Poem Text First Line: White butterflies flitting across the face Last Line: In a gauze of opal lure. Subject(s): Asia; Butterflies; Insects; Moon; Stars; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Bugs ORPHIC SOUL, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I walk slowly along Last Line: Kept secret even from myself Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Self; Soul PERPETUAL MOTION, by JORGE GUILLEN Poem Source First Line: Two white butterflies %chasing one another Last Line: Two routes %two raptures Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects POEM, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Late butterflies gliding through the air Subject(s): Butterflies POETIC EPIGRAMS: 8. KINDRED, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The butterfly and flower Last Line: By earth in the same hour. Subject(s): Butterflies; Flowers; Insects; Bugs PSYCHE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The butterfly the ancient grecians made Last Line: And to deform and kill the things whereon we feed. Variant Title(s): The Butterfly Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs REQUIEM OF THE BUTTERFLY, by GONZALO ROJAS Poem Source First Line: Dirty was the day of the dead butterfly Last Line: In the luxury of so much beauty, tell us how %or, at least, when Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects RIDDLE, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source First Line: The little chief from the north Last Line: Where I go to is good Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Riddles ROOTS AND BRANCHES, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Sail, monarchs, rising and falling Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs ROOTS AND BRANCHES, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sail, monarchs, rising and falling Last Line: Awakening transports of an inner view of things Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects SAMSON, by RICK BURSKY Poem Source First Line: Whoever said a butterfly couldn't be trained Last Line: And I did. Love creates obedience Subject(s): Animals; Butterflies; Insects; Love; Obedience SEA AND THE BUTTERFLY, by KIM KIRIM Poem Source First Line: Since no one has ever told her Last Line: And the pale moon chills the thin waist %of the sad butterfly Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects SECOND LIFE, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After life's departing sigh Last Line: Come and catch that butterfly!' Subject(s): Butterflies; Death; Insects; Reincarnation; Dead, The; Bugs; Transmigration; Pretas SECRET (2), by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fuzzy fellow without feet Last Line: To tell the pretty secret %of the butterfly! Variant Title(s): Poem: 173; Poem: 17 Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects SECRET LIFE OF BUTTERFLIES, by EDMUND CONTI Poem Source First Line: The butterfly Last Line: I'd rather be phyllis diller %than a caterpillar.' Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects SEEING A BUTTERFLY ON AN AUTUMN DAY, by ZHU ZHONGXIAN Poem Source First Line: Vast river, falling leaves, eagles' sorrowful cries Last Line: Flits toward a cold twig in this autumn scene Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects SEPTEMBER BUTTERFLY, by MOLLIE BORING Poem Source First Line: On the %dashboard in my car Last Line: Stretched across %the bay Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects SONG, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The butterflies that are the snow's own hue Last Line: O blossom of my soul! Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Butterflies; Desire; Flight; Insects; Love; Flying; Bugs SONNET TO A BUTTERFLY, by HENRY WILLIAM HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forth to thy bright existence of an hour Last Line: Never to sorrow more, nor doubt, nor die? Alternate Author Name(s): Forester, Frank Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs SOUTH WINDS JOSTLE THEM, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Present them here! Subject(s): Bees; Butterflies; Wind STILL LIFE WITH BUTTERFLIES, BREAKERS, ATLANTIC CITY, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Noon monarchs. Their crooked descents and ascensions Subject(s): Butterflies STUDY FOR A GEOGRAPHICAL TRAIL; 4. NEW JERSEY, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So much depends on four butterflies Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE BENUMBED BUTTERFLY, by AUBREY DE VERE Poem Text First Line: Beautiful creature, how I envy thee! Last Line: Ingrate! Have chattered more than thou art worth. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE BUTTERFLIES OF TAIWAN, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: I said: because it is the case that Last Line: Or curious, like the butterflies of taiwan? Subject(s): Butterflies; Happiness; Insects; Taiwan; Wings; Joy; Delight; Bugs; Formosa THE BUTTERFLY, by MARGARET AVISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An uproar Last Line: Towards the subhuman swamp of under-dark? Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those things / which you so laughingly call Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the gorgeous butterfly / in the jubilee of spring Last Line: By perfidious pleasure's thorn! Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY, by ALICE ARCHER SEWALL JAMES Poem Text First Line: I am not what I was yesterday Last Line: Take care of me. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's just a monstrous ant with paper wings Last Line: And haven't seen it make a bit of butter. Subject(s): Butterflies; Children; Insects; Childhood; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY, by ALPHONSE MARIE LOUIS DE PRAT LAMARTINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Coming with the daffodils and dying with the roses Last Line: Bears it home to heaven again for lasting joy and deep. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY, by ADELAIDE O'KEEFFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The butterfly, an idle thing Last Line: Nor be a butterfly. Alternate Author Name(s): O'keefe, Adelaide Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: He loitered on from flower to flower Last Line: The monarch of a peaceful breast. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Nature; Wings; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The butterfly from flower to flower Last Line: The very glory he had sought. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watched to-day a butterfly Last Line: Have raised my thoughts from earth to god. Subject(s): Butterflies; Death; Earth; Insects; Life; Time; Dead, The; World; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leafless, stemless, floating flower Last Line: Bearing blossoms of thy kind. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alexis seized a prisoned butterfly Last Line: Claim to such trust, - all nature's underling?' Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY AND THE ROSE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She pluck'd a wild wood-rose, and fondly strove Last Line: To hold it, thou hast lightly thrown away! Subject(s): Butterflies; Flowers; Insects; Roses; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY OBTAINS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For immortality Subject(s): Butterflies; Immortality THE BUTTERFLY'S BALL, by THOMAS ROSCOE Poem Text First Line: Come, take up your hats, and away let us haste Last Line: His merry companions return'd in a throng. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY'S FIRST FLIGHT, by AGNES STRICKLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast burst from thy prison Last Line: To pleasure once more. Subject(s): Butterflies; Flight; Insects; Flying; Bugs THE BUTTERYFLY'S ASSUMPTION-GOWN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: in a new england town! Subject(s): Butterflies; New England THE CATERPILLAR, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, that I too could go to sleep Last Line: The peach-blooms and the daffodils! Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Butterflies; Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs THE COQUETTE (A VILLANELLE), by EUGENIA BRAGG SMITH Poem Text First Line: I see a dainty butterfly Last Line: She calls her mate in passing by. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE DEAD BUTTERFLY, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now I see its whiteness Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE EARLY BUTTERFLY, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trusting the first warm day of spring Last Line: "that hush'd in grim repose, expect their evening prey." Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE EXAMPLE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's an example from a butterfly Last Line: To make a stone a flower. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE FLOWER AND THE BUTTERFLY, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once to the butterfly a floweret sighed Last Line: "the sky—the mead." Subject(s): Butterflies; Flowers; Insects; Bugs THE HEART, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A stumblebum in scree Last Line: With his throat cut Subject(s): Butterflies; Hummingbirds; Insects; Bugs THE LOST BUTTERFLY, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Like some rare flower endowed Last Line: The welcome music of immortal years. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Nature; Bugs THE MISTAKEN MOTH, by ? WEGENER Poem Text First Line: Mid the summer flush of roses Last Line: "butterfly!" Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Kisses; Women; Bugs THE ORPHIC SOUL, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I walk slowly along Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Self; Soul; Bugs THE SEARCH FOR LOST LIVES, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was chasing this blue butterfly down Subject(s): Butterflies THE SPIDER, by EDWARD LITTLETON Poem Text First Line: Artist, that underneath my table / thy curious feature hast displayed Last Line: Ends both the spider and the poet. Subject(s): Animals; Butterflies; Insects; Spiders; Wings; Bugs THEY LOOK, by OSHIMA RYOTA Poem Source Last Line: Those two butterflies Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects THREE ANIMALS: THE BUTTERFLY, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The butterfly / flies up like pow Last Line: "like a woman’s face to pow Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THREE ANIMALS: THE BUTTERFLY, by RON PADGETT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The butterfly %flies up like pow Last Line: Like a woman's face to powder Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects THREE LEIS FOR A PARTING, by WALKER WINSLOW Poem Text First Line: Not of the flower of ginger, nor of gardenias Last Line: Pigments the pastels of our waters at dusk. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs TO A BUTTERFLY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Butterfly Last Line: While with thee I wander! Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Nature - Religious Aspects; Wandering & Wanderers; Bugs; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes TO A BUTTERFLY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little fluttering beauteous fly Last Line: For short thy moments of delight. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs TO A BUTTERFLY, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Already in midsummer / I miss your feet and fur Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs TO A BUTTERFLY, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Already in midsummer %I miss your feet and fur Last Line: Wiles gather dust. Each will have flown %the other's jail Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects TO A BUTTERFLY, by L. PEARL SCHUCK Poem Source First Line: Sun is a rose window Last Line: My breath gauze in my throat. %when you fly, I will follow Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects TO A BUTTERFLY (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've watched you now a full half-hour Last Line: As twenty days are now. Variant Title(s): To A Butterfly Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Time; Bugs TO A BUTTERFLY IN A WINDOW, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Escaped thy place of wintry rest Last Line: And all thou know'st of life be good. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs TO A CHALK-BLUE, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Butterflies, butterflies, delicate downy ones Last Line: Oh, bold little, old little, blue bit of june! Subject(s): Blue (color); Butterflies; Insects; Bugs TO A MONARCH BUTTERFLY, by LOLA SNEYD Poem Source First Line: Traveling jewel of the skies Last Line: I'll remember nature's art Subject(s): Animals; Butterflies; Insects TO A STEAM ROLLER, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The illustration Last Line: The congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Steamrollers; Bugs TO A YELLOW BUTTERFLY, APRIL 8, 1808, by MARY RUSSELL MITFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail! Loveliest insect of the spring! Last Line: May'st thou thy transient life enjoy! Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects TO THE BUTTERFLY, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Child of the sun! Pursue thy rapturous flight Last Line: To burst a seraph in the blaze of day! Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs TOTI DEL MONTE (THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT), by RENEE WEISS First Line: Amazing, that opera Last Line: All those pounds of her, %toti del monte Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects TRANSFORMATION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The butterflies are buttercups, wind-blown Last Line: Are butterflies flight-weary, seeking rest. Subject(s): Butterflies; Fields; Insects; Summer; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Bugs TWO VOYAGERS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two butterflies went out at noon Last Line: Report was not to me. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs UNIVERSE'S GENTLENESS PROVEN IN BUTTERFLY DESIGN, by TINA KELLY Poem Source First Line: Do not fret, fragilest one Last Line: Cakemix to the homeless, cans, no canopeners Subject(s): Butterflies; Colors; Insects; Universe WAKE UP! WAKE UP!, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Sleeping butterfly Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects WALNUTS, by OUIDA LOUISE CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: Walnuts must be cocoons Last Line: A butterfly. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Walnuts; Bugs WHEN A BUTTERFLY SEES A FLOWER, by SONG-I Poem Source Last Line: Which must not come again Subject(s): Butterflies; Flowers; Hearts; Insects; Love WHEN DIAMONDS ARE A LEGEND, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And once - a butterfly Variant Title(s): Poem: 397; Poem: 55 Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects WINGS, by MINNIE S. HUNTER Poem Text First Line: A butterfly with velvet wings that go Last Line: One blew down and remained to slumber. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs WINTER BUTTERFLIES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The snowflakes flutter all around Last Line: To visit boys and girls they love. Subject(s): Butterflies; Children; Insects; Snow; Childhood; Bugs WISDOM UNAPPLIED, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I were thou, o butterfly Last Line: Are wise (for all thy scorn) as thou.' Subject(s): Butterflies; Wisdom; Advice |
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