Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO BUTTERFLY, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember how the twilight stood Last Line: When it is march -- do you remember still? Subject(s): Birds; Evening; Gardens & Gardening; Moon; Silence; Sunset; Twilight | ||||||||
Do you remember how the twilight stood And leaned above the river just to see If still the crocus buds were in her hood And if her robes were gold or shadowy? Do you remember how the twilight stood When we were lovers and the world our wood? And then, one night, when we could find no word But silence trembled like a heart -- like mine! -- And suddenly that moon-enraptured bird Awoke and all the darkness turned to wine? How long ago that was! And how absurd For us to own a wood that owned a bird! They tell me there are magic gardens still, And birds that sleep to wake and dream to sing, And streams that pause for crocus skies to fill; But they that told were lovers and 'twas spring. Yet why the moon to-night's a daffodil When it is March -- Do you remember still? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JOURNEY INTO THE EYE by DAVID LEHMAN FEBRUARY EVENING IN NEW YORK by DENISE LEVERTOV THE HOUSE OF DUST: 1 by CONRAD AIKEN TWILIGHT COMES by HAYDEN CARRUTH IN THE EVENINGS by LUCILLE CLIFTON NINETEEN FORTY by NORMAN DUBIE OVERTONES by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY |
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