<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Butterflies - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[I'd be a butterfly, born in a bower, Where roses and lilies and violets meet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5148]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd be a butterfly, born in a bower, Where roses and lilies and violets meet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gray sail against the sky, Gray butterfly!  Have you a dream for going.   Or are you the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gray sail against the sky, Gray butterfly!  Have you a dream for going.   Or are you the blind wind's blowing?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the rose the butterfly's deep in love, A thousand times hovering round;  But round himself, all tender like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5150]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the rose the butterfly's deep in love, A thousand times hovering round;  But round himself, all tender like gold,   The sun's sweet ray is hovering found.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far out at sea,--the sun was high, While veer'd the wind and flapped the sail,  We saw a snow-white ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far out at sea,--the sun was high, While veer'd the wind and flapped the sail,  We saw a snow-white butterfly   Dancing before the fitful gale,    Far out at sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gold-barr'd butterflies to and from And over the waterside wander'd and wove  As heedless and idle as clouds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5152]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gold-barr'd butterflies to and from And over the waterside wander'd and wove  As heedless and idle as clouds that rove   And drift by the peaks of perpetual snow.   - Joaquin Miller (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And many an ante-natal tomb When butterflies dream of the life to come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5153]]></link><description><![CDATA[And many an ante-natal tomb When butterflies dream of the life to come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much converse do I find in thee, Historian of my infancy!  Float near me; do not yet depart!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much converse do I find in thee, Historian of my infancy!  Float near me; do not yet depart!   Dead times revive in thee:    Thou bring'st, gay creature as thou art!     A solemn image to my heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5154</guid></item></channel></rss>