Apple-Blossom
Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)
Blossom of the apple trees!
Mossy trunks all gnarled and hoary,
Grey boughs tipped with rose-veined glory,
Clustered petals soft as fleece
Garlanding old apple trees!
How you gleam at break of day!
When the coy sun, glancing rarely,
Pouts and sparkles in the pearly
Pendulous dewdrops, twinkling gay
On each dancing leaf and spray.
Through your latticed boughs on high,
Framed in rosy wreaths, one catches
Brief kaleidoscopic snatches
Of deep lapis-lazuli
In the April-coloured sky.
When the sundown's dying brand
Leaves your beauty to the tender
Magic spells of moonlight splendour,
Glimmering clouds of bloom you stand,
Turning earth to fairyland.
Cease, wild winds, O, cease to blow!
Apple-blossom, fluttering, flying,
Palely on the green turf lying,
Vanishing like winter snow;
Swift as joy to come and go.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABBXA CBBCC DXXBD EXBEE FGGFF |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 818 |
Words | 132 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
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