Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BEAUTIFUL WINGS, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY


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First Line: Beautiful wings that beat the void
Last Line: Builds heaven overhead.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Poetry & Poets; Bugs


BEAUTIFUL wings that beat the void,
At every stroke a deathless song,
A joy embodied, a grief destroyed, --
Mortal, you live not long.

But in the mind you still shall soar
O'er him whom you leave dead;
The poet, buried evermore,
Builds heaven overhead.





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