 TO BUTTERFLY Do you remember how the twilight stood And leaned above the river just to see If still the crocus buds were in her hood, And if her robes were gold or shadowy? Do you remember how the twilight stood When we were lovers and the world our wood...  In April Once - Page 84by William Alexander Percy - 1920 - 134 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Book collecting - 1918 - 840 pages
...stay an hour — If I were a daffodil— Or a little cool blinking bug Down in the daffodil leaves — TO BUTTERFLY Do you remember how the twilight stood...we could find no word, But silence trembled like a heart — like mine! — And suddenly that moon-enraptured bird Awoke and all the darkness turned to... | |
 | American poetry - 1925 - 1186 pages
...my eyelids are locked down for fear of tears. . . There is memory in the forest. Margaret Widdemer TO BUTTERFLY Do you remember how the twilight stood...we could find no word, But silence trembled like a heart — like mine! — And suddenly that moon-enraptured bird Awoke and all the darkness turned to... | |
 | Addison Hibbard - American literature - 1928 - 328 pages
...stretch my hands more wildly, More vainly turn and stretch to you my hands. WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY. TO BUTTERFLY Do you remember how the twilight stood...we could find no word But silence trembled like a heart — like mine! — And suddenly that moon-enraptured bird Awoke and all the darkness turned to... | |
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