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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE ELMS ARE FLOWERING, by JOYCE GRENFELL Poet's Biography
First Line: The elms are flowering in a rosy cloud
Last Line: Stand look and sense fulfilment being born.
Subject(s): Elm Trees
First Line: The elms are flowering in a rosy cloud
Last Line: Stand look and sense fulfilment being born.
Subject(s): Elm Trees
The elms are flowering in a rosy cloud,
A sudden transient blossoming, soon past,
The one fair moment in a stern tree's year
Before its ebon bones are overcast.
High in the fragile feathery branches
Rooks are building thick, untidy nests,
A sooty architecture, old as time,
Beyond the reach of uninvited guests.
Feel the damp wind that lightly passes by;
Smell the damp earth and mark the beaded thorn
That runs above the footpath's narrow cut.
Stand look and sense fulfilment being born.
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