 THE garden beds I wandered by One bright and cheerful morn, When I found a new-fledged butterfly, A-sitting on a thorn, A black and crimson butterfly, All doleful and forlorn. I thought that life could have no sting To infant butterflies, So I gazed on...  Life - Page 661892Full view - About this book
 | Charlotte Perkins Gilman - American poetry - 1914 - 244 pages
...thought that life could have no sting To infant butterflies, So I gazed on this unhappy thing With wonder and surprise, While sadly with his waving wing...he only turned away from me And burst into a roar. 100 Cried he, " My legs are thin and few Where once I had a swarm ! Soft fuzzy fur — a joy to view... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American poetry - 1900 - 968 pages
...butterflies, So I gazed on this unhappy thing With wonder and surprise, While smlly with his waving wing Ho wiped his weeping eyes. Said I, " What can the matter be ? Why wccpest thou so sore ? With garden fair and sunlight free And flowers in goodly store:" — But he... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - Literary Criticism - 1901 - 964 pages
...thought that life could have no sting To infant butterflies, So I gazed on this unhappy thing With wonder and surprise, While sadly with his waving wing...What can the matter be ? Why weepest thou so sore ? WTith garden fair and sunlight free And flowers in goodly store: " — But he only turned away from... | |
 | Robert D. Blackman - American literature - 1904 - 1196 pages
...thought that life could have no sting To infant butterflies, So I gazed on this unhappy thing With wonder and surprise, While sadly with his waving wing...matter be ? Why weepest thou so sore ? With garden fair aud sunlight free And flowers in goodly store — " But he only turned away from me And burst into... | |
 | Robert D. Blackman - American literature - 1912 - 1230 pages
...thought that life could have no sting To infant butterflies, So I gazed on this unhappy thing With wonder and surprise, While sadly with his waving wing...away from me And burst into a roar. Cried he, " My logs are thin and few Where once I had a swarm ! Soft fuzzy fur — a joy to view — Once kept my... | |
 | Kenneth Kemp - Great Britain - 1913 - 268 pages
...could have no sting To infant butterflies, So I gazed on this unhappy thing In wonder and surprise, As sadly with his waving wing He wiped his weeping eyes....And flowers in goodly store ? " But he only turned _a way from me, And burst into a roar. Said he, " My legs are thin and few Where once I had a swarm... | |
 | American poetry - 1918 - 2030 pages
...thought that life could have no sting To infant butterflies. So I gazed on this unhappy thing ''• With wonder and surprise, While sadly with his waving wing...only turned away from me And burst into a roar. Cried be, "My legs arc thin and few Where once I had a swarm ! Soft fuzzy fur — a joy to view — Once... | |
 | Bliss Carman - American poetry - 1927 - 718 pages
...thought that life could have no sting To infant butterflies, So I gazed on this unhappy thing With wonder and surprise, While sadly with his waving wing He wiped his weeping eyes. 494 Said I, " What can the matter be? Why weepest thou so sore? With garden fair and sunlight free... | |
 | Bliss Carman - American poetry - 1927 - 720 pages
...thought that life could have no sting To infant butterflies, So I gazed on this unhappy thing With wonder and surprise, While sadly with his waving wing...eyes. Said I, " What can the matter be? Why weepest them so sore? With garden fair and sunlight free And flowers in goodly store:" — But he only turned... | |
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