Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHY YE BLOSSOME COMETH BEFORE YE LEAFE, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poet's Biography First Line: Once hoary winter chanced - alas! Last Line: How blossomed so ye leafless bough. Subject(s): Holidays; Trees | ||||||||
ONCE hoary Winter chanced -- alas! Alas ! hys waye mistaking -- A leafless apple-tree to pass Where Spring lay dreaming. "Fie, ye lass! Ye lass had best be waking," Quoth he, and shook hys robe, and, lo! Lo! forth didde flye a cloud of snowe. Now in ye bough an elfe there dwelte, An elfe of wondrous powere, That when ye chillye snowe didde pelte, With magic charm each flake didde melte, Didde melte into a flowere; And Spring didde wake and marvelle how, How blossomed so ye leafless bough. | 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 LIMERICK by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD |
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