The battle rent a cobweb diamond-strung And cut a flower beside a ground bird's nest Before it stained a single human breast. The stricken flower bent double and so hung. And still the bird revisited her young. A butterfly its fall had dispossessed A moment sought in air his flower of rest, Then lightly stooped to it and fluttering clung. On the bare upland pasture there had spread O'ernight 'twixt mullein stalks a wheel of thread And straining cables wet with silver dew. A sudden passing bullet shook it dry. The indwelling spider ran to greet the fly, But finding nothing, sullenly withdrew. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TOM DEADLIGHT by HERMAN MELVILLE SONNET: HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH THE GROANS OF THE TANKARD by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD THE SPINNER by CLARA DOTY BATES LIGHTNING by WILLIAM ROSE BENET A SPRING SONG by MATHILDE BLIND |