Art of Language Lesson 09, Page 3

 

The picture below was taken on one of our walks near Brant’s Fell.

A man named WILLIAM WORDSWORTH was taken by the beauty of this community of the Lakes … and wrote POETRY to express himself.

 

To a Butterfly

by William Wordsworth

 

I’ve watched you now a full half-hour,

Self-poised upon that yellow flower,

And, little Butterfly! Indeed

I know not if you sleep or feed.

How motionless! And then

What joy awaits you, when the breeze

Hath found you out among the trees,

And calls you forth again!

 

This plot of orchard-ground is ours;

My trees they are, my Sister’s flowers.

Here rest your wings when they are weary;

Here lodge as in a sanctuary!

Come often to us, fear no wrong;

Sit near us on the bough!

We’ll talk of sunshine and of song,

And summer days, when we were young;

Sweet childish days, that were as long

As twenty days are now.