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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ALMOND BLOSSOM, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Blossom of the almond trees
Last Line: Almond bloom, we greet thee well!
Subject(s): Almond Trees; Trees
First Line: Blossom of the almond trees
Last Line: Almond bloom, we greet thee well!
Subject(s): Almond Trees; Trees
BLOSSOM of the almond-trees,
April's gift to April's bees,
Birthday ornament of spring,
Flora's fairest daughterling;—
Coming when no flowerets dare
Trust the cruel outer air,
When the royal king-cup bold
Dares not don his coat of gold,
And the sturdy blackthorn spray
Keeps his silver for the May;—
Coming when no flowerets would,
Save thy lowly sisterhood,
Early violets, blue and white,
Dying for their love of light.
Almond blossom, sent to teach us
That the spring days soon will reach us,
Lest, with longing over-tried,
We die as the violets died,—
Blossom, clouding all the tree
With thy crimson broidery,
Long before a leaf of green
On the bravest bough is seen,—
Ah! when winter winds are swinging
All thy red bells into ringing,
With a bee in every bell,
Almond bloom, we greet thee well!
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