Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO THE BUTTERFLY, by SAMUEL ROGERS



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TO THE BUTTERFLY, by                 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


CHILD of the sun! pursue thy rapturous flight,
Mingling with her thou lov'st in fields of light;
And, where the flowers of Paradise unfold,
Quaff fragrant nectar from their cups of gold.
There shall thy wings, rich as an evening-sky,
Expand and shut with silent ecstasy!
-- Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept
On the bare earth, then wrought a tomb and slept.
And such is man; soon from his cell of clay
To burst a seraph in the blaze of day!





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