Death & Dying
A Russian Fantasy
From An American Anthology, 1787–1900, ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
Death & Dying
O’er the yellow crocus on the lawn
Floats a light white butterfly.
Breezes waft it! See, ’t is gone!
Dushka, little soul, when didst thou die?
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Dole, Nathan Haskell. “A Russian Fantasy.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dole_nh/2/.
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Dole, Nathan Haskell. “A Russian Fantasy.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dole_nh/2/.
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