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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AN APRIL VIOLET, by ANONYMOUS
First Line: "under the larch, with its tassels wet"
Last Line: Only an april violet
Subject(s): Death;flowers;violets; "dead, The;
First Line: "under the larch, with its tassels wet"
Last Line: Only an april violet
Subject(s): Death;flowers;violets; "dead, The;
UNDER the larch, with its tassels wet,
While the early sunbeams lingered yet,
In the rosy dawn my love I met.
Under the larch, when the sun was set,
He came with an April violet:
Forty years—and I have it yet.
Out of life, with its fond regret,
What have love and memory yet?
Only an April violet.
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