Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SPRING APPLE TREE; AQUARELLE, by IGOR SEVERIANIN Poet's Biography First Line: An apple-tree in spring shakes me,-to see it grow Last Line: And I lift up my lips to kiss her flowering face. Alternate Author Name(s): Severyanin, Igor Subject(s): Apple Trees; Flowers; Fruit; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Spring; Trees | ||||||||
An apple-tree in Spring shakes me,to see it grow, Its branches whitely weighted with unmelting snow. So might a hunch-backed girl stand, beautiful and dumb, As trembling, the tree stands, and strikes my genius numb.... It looks into the wide, pale shallows, mirror-clear, Seeking to shed the dews that stain it like a tear; And stilled with horror, groans like a rude, rusty cart, Seeing the dismal hunch mocked by the pool's bright art. When steely sleep alights upon the silent lake For the bent apple-tree, as for a sick girl's sake, I come to offer tenderness the boughs would miss, I press upon the petal-perfumed tree a kiss. Then trustingly, with tears, the tree confides her care To me, and brushes with a touch my back-blown hair. Her boughs encircle me, her little twigs enlace, And I lift up my lips to kiss her flowering face. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE PROBLEM OF DESCRIBING TREES by ROBERT HASS THE GREEN CHRIST by ANDREW HUDGINS MIDNIGHT EDEN by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN REFLECTION OF THE WOOD by LEONIE ADAMS THE LIFE OF TREES by DORIANNE LAUX A RUSSIAN SONG (1) by IGOR SEVERIANIN AND IT PASSED BY THE SEA-SHORE; POEZA MIGNONETTE by IGOR SEVERIANIN |
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