to make a slider using cycle2 you need to pass cycle-slideshow to class attribute of a div. like this :
<div class="cycle-slideshow">
<img src="image1.png" />
</div>
if your each slide includes text you have to create a div including img and some text tag and pass the class to its parent by data-cycle-slides :
<div class="cycle-slideshow" data-cycle-slides=".slide">
<div class="slide">
<img src="images/duck.jpg" alt="">
<div class="slide-text">
<h4>Title1</h4>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit. Numquam aut1</p>
</div>
</div>
to create previous and next button you can pass cycle-prev and cycle-next to some span tags to have those buttons automatically.
<span class="cycle-prev">«</span>
<span class="cycle-next">»</span>
how to create a pagger for your slider:
<span class="cycle-pager"></span>
pause slider if user hover mous on slider by data-cycle-pause-on-hover="true":
<div class="cycle-slideshow" data-cycle-pause-on-hover="true">...</div>