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Robert Frost
March 26, 1874-January 29, 1963
"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom"
Blue-Butterfly Day
by Robert Frost
It was a blue-butterfly day here in spring.
And with these sky-flakes down in flurry on flurry
There is more unmixed color on the wing
Than flowers will show for days unless they hurry.
But these are flowers that fly and all but sing:
And now from having ridden out desire
They lie closed over in the wind and cling
Where wheels have freshly sliced the April mire.
Robert Frost is a four time Pulitzer Prize winning poet. He spent most of his life in New England where he created poems about nature and seasons. He performed his poem The Gift of Outright at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy January 20, 1961. On his 86th birthday March 26, 1962 ,he was awarded the Congressional Medal at the White House by John Kennedy. His epitaph quotes a line from one of his poems "I had a lover's quarrel with the world."
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