Robert Frost

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."