Butterfly Bride, What Joy Awaits You

  • oil and mixed media on Paper
  • 8 x 10.5
  • Available
$400.00 USD

$400 unframed

$650 framed:  90% UV protection

$800 professionally framed: 100% UV protection

 

 

What Joy Awaits You in the title is from William Wordsworth's poem To a Butterfly (2).

 

To a Butterfly (2)

 

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!---not frozen seas
More 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 wing 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.


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