Nature
Butterfly
From Child Verse (1900)
Nature
Butterfly, Butterfly, sipping the sand,
Have you forgotten the flowers of the land?
Or are you so sated with honey and dew
That sand-filtered water tastes better to you?
Cite this poem
MLA
Tabb, John Banister. “Butterfly.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tabb/11/.
Chicago
Tabb, John Banister. “Butterfly.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tabb/11/.
Read this poem with the Codex →