Charlotte Perkins Stetson

  • The garden beds I wandered by
      One bright and cheerful morn,
    When I found a new-fledged butterfly,
      A-sitting on a thorn,
    A black and crimson butterfly,
      All doleful and forlorn.

    I thought that life could have no sting
      To infant...

  • High-lying, sea-blown stretches of green turf,
      Wind-bitten close, salt-colored by the sea,
    Low curve on curve spread far to the cool sky,
    And, curving over them as long they lie,
        Beds of wild fleur-de-lys.

    Wide-flowing, self-sown, stealing near and...

  • A night: mysterious, tender, quiet, deep;
    Heavy with flowers; full of life asleep;
    Thrilling with insect voices; thick with stars;
    No cloud between the dewdrops and red Mars;
    The small earth whirling softly on her way,
    The moonbeams and the waterfalls at...