INSECT or blossom? Fragile, fairy thing, Poised upon slender tip, and quivering To flight! a flower of the fields of air; A jewelled moth; a butterfly, with rare And tender tints upon his downy wing, A moment resting in our happy sight; A flower held captive by a thread so slight Its petal-wings of broidered gossamer Are, light as the wind, with every wind astir, -- Wafting sweet odor, faint and exquisite. O dainty nursling of the field and sky, What fairer thing looks up to heaven's blue And drinks the noontide sun, the dawning's dew? Thou winged bloom! thou blossom-butterfly! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GLOTTO'S TOWER by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 32 by EDWARD TAYLOR THE MAYFLOWERS by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER JENNY WI' THE AIRN TEETH by ALEXANDER ANDERSON VERSES TO AN INFANT by BERNARD BARTON CLIO, NINE ECLOGUES IN HONOUR OF NINE VIRTUES: 4. WORTHY MEMORY by WILLIAM BASSE |