Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A WOOD ORCHID, by ANONYMOUS


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A WOOD ORCHID, by                    
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


A BUTTERFLY, wing-weary, came to find
A sweet seclusion from the amorous wind,
Deep in the pine woods, where the dusky trees
Shut in the forest's sounding silences
With close-twined boughs from which the breeze has blown
The fragrance-breathing fragments of the cone.
Deeply she drank the nectar of repose.
Spreading her downy wings all veined with rose,
Upon the gray-green mosses, cool and dank,
Languished the sprite, and in a swoon she sank,
While a delicious numbness born of death
Stilled the soft wings that stirred with each faint breath.
One summer morning, while the languid breeze
Strayed with a languid murmur thro' the trees,
It breathed a kiss upon a folded pair
Of pink flushed wings -- and found them rooted there.





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