by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
From Cocoon forth a Butterfly
Language: English
From Cocoon forth a Butterfly As Lady from her Door Emerged - a Summer Afternoon - Repairing Everywhere - Without Design - that I could trace Except to stray abroad On Miscellaneous Enterprise The Clovers - understood - Her pretty Parasol was seen Contracting in a Field Where Men made Hay - Then struggling hard With an opposing Cloud - Where Parties - Phantom as Herself - To Nowhere - seemed to go In purposeless Circumference, As 'twere a Tropic Show. And notwithstanding Bee - that worked - And Flower - that zealous blew, This Audience of idleness Disdained them, from the Sky - Till Sundown crept - a steady Tide - And Men that made the Hay - And Afternoon - and Butterfly - Extinguished - in [its]1 Sea.
About the headline (FAQ)
View original text (without footnotes)1 Glickman: "the"
Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Sylvia Glickman (1932 - 2006), "From Cocoon forth" [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 25
Word count: 130