HERE Lucy paused for the blue butterfly -- Blue with the mingled colours of the sky: Here Lucy paused, and murmured to behold His fingers long or feelers ringed with gold, Ebony-ringed like cowboy's switches are, And touched with sunset and its seraph star. Frilled round he was, she bade me look, with white; Over his body blossomed a soft light; And in his wings a ruddiness remained Like thunder skies, yet thence his sweet blue gained; And when he shut his timid wings, then even His undersides proclaimed a child of heaven, Flecked with dark eyes, in paly circlets crowned. Vetches of scarlet vein were legion round; The speckled orchid grew, wild bean beside; The aspens like a pebbled water sighed; When he rose up to feathery fanning flight And over sweetbriar dancing went from sight. And here I see him yet, and Lucy's eye Smiles on him from that day so past fled by, And her delight so trembling and so true Is whispering in my lonely walk anew. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AT CASTERBRIDGE FAIR: 7. AFTER THE FAIR by THOMAS HARDY THE DRUM by JOHN SCOTT (1730-1783) ODE TO THE CONNECTICUT RIVER by JOSIAS LYNDON ARNOLD SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 16. VENUS INCARNATE by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) A TRIBUTE TO WILL ROGERS AND WILEY POST by ROSETTA THORSON BEACHLER MANCHESTER BY NIGHT by MATHILDE BLIND THE EMPIRE STATE by LUCY BURGMAN A LITTLE WRINKLED SOUL OF LOVELINESS by WILLIAM BYRON CHARLES |