Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, APPLE BLOSSOMS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER


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First Line: All day in the green, sunny orchard
Last Line: The while that he dreamily spoke.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Farm Life; Forests; Fruit; Harvest; Spring; Trees; Agriculture; Farmers; Woods


ALL day in the green, sunny orchard,
When May was a marvel of bloom,
I followed the busy bee-lovers
Down paths that were sweet with perfume.

The one perfect cluster I sought for
Was not in the orchard for me;
It swung on the edge of a forest,
From the bough of a wild apple-tree—

A tree that no thrift of the farmer
Had cared in its life to protect,
All twisted and stunted and barren,
The orphan of nature's neglect.

That, lone in the lavish Spring beauty,
Bore only one blossoming spray,—
But that, in its delicate tinting,
The blossom I'd looked for all day!

The soul of the tree in its prison
Had thrilled to the passion of Spring,
And given itself in its answer—
The beggar-maid's "Yes" to the king.

So told me the gray-bearded painter,
And showed me the branch that he broke,
All glowing and sweet on the canvas
The while that he dreamily spoke.





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