butterfly - Popular Poems and stories from category

Good deeds are not about building castles for the poor
Or taking them on a world tour
It is about making a difference where we can
To do that, you don't have to be a rich man

The dawn is smiling on the dew that covers The tearful roses; lo, the little lovers That kiss the buds, and all the flutterings In jasmine bloom, and privet, of white wings,
That go and come, and fly, and peep and hide,
With muffled musi...

AY near me—-do not take thy flight
A little longer stay in sight
Much converse do I find I thee,
Historian of my infancy

"I write about the butterfly, It is a pretty thing; And flies about like the birds, But it does not sing
"First it is a little grub, And then it is a nice yellow cocoon, And then the butterfly Eats its way out soon
"They l...

Chuang Tzu in dream became a butterfly,
And the butterfly became Chuang Tzu at waking
Which was the real—the butterfly or the man
Who can tell the end of the endless changes of things

Sweet, bide with me and let my love Be an enduring tether;
Oh, wanton not from spot to spot, But let us dwell together
You've come each morn to sip the sweets With which you found me dripping,
Yet never knew it was not dew But tears...