Get ready for spring learning with this lovely poem from my printables shop. Download “To A Butterfly” by William Wordsworth to read with your children and discuss Wordsworth’s thoughts on the butterfly.

Print off the lovely page to:

• read and/or memorize in your morning time
• inspire drawing or painting
• add it to your notebooking
• display on the wall
• look up vocabulary

So many ways to learn with one poem!

“To A Butterfly” by William Wordsworth

I’ve watched you now a full half hour
Self-poised upon that yellow flower;
And, little Butterfly! indeed
I know not if you sleep or feed.
How motionless!–not frozen seas
More motionless!–and then
What joy awaits you, when the breeze
Hath found you out among the trees,
And calls you forth again!

This plot of orchard-ground is ours;
My trees they are, my Sister’s flowers:
Here rest your wings when they are weary,
Here lodge as in a sanctuary!
Come often to us, fear no wrong;
Sit near us on the bough!
We’ll talk of sunshine and of song,
And summer days, when we were young;
Sweet childish days, that were as long
As twenty days are now.

Butterfly Printables in The Shop