Love
With a Spray of Apple Blossoms
From An American Anthology (1900)
Love
The promise of these fragrant flowers,
The fruit that 'neath these blossoms lies
Once hung, they say, in Eden's bowers,
And tempted Eve in Paradise.
O fairest daughter of Eve's blood,
Lest her misprision thine should be,
I 've nipped temptation in the bud
And send this snowy spray to thee.
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Learned, Walter. “With a Spray of Apple Blossoms.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/learned_w/1/.
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Learned, Walter. “With a Spray of Apple Blossoms.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/learned_w/1/.
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