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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WINGS, by GLADYS MELVILLE INT-HOUT
First Line: On laggard wing, the butterfly
Last Line: And poised my soul for flight.
Subject(s): Wings
First Line: On laggard wing, the butterfly
Last Line: And poised my soul for flight.
Subject(s): Wings
On laggard wing, the butterfly
Sips nectar from the flowers --
A jeweled voyager content
To dream away the hours.
On ghostly wing the night moth flies
Unknown, unseen, unheard --
And yet because it passed just then
The scented air is stirred.
And sometimes in the quiet dawn
Or in the dim twilight
I, too, have felt the lift of wings
And poised my soul for flight.
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