Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ACQUAINTANCE, by DAVID MORTON



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First Line: All that we know of april is her way
Last Line: And these bright legends we have learned to say.
Subject(s): April


All that we know of April is her way
Of coming on the world through gentle springs,
Turning the hedge a whitening line of spray,
Staining the grass with shivered, golden things.
She has a way of rain against the sun,
Of moonlit orchards, ghostly white and still,
And the slow, silver coming, one by one,
Of burning stars above a purple hill.

And this is all we know of such as she,
These shining names she leaves for us to call:
The whitening hedge, the showery apple tree,
And golden jonquils gathering by a wall. . . .
All that we know of April is her way,
And these bright legends we have learned to say.





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