Famous Apple Poems | Examples of Famous Apple Poetry (2024)

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by Blake, William

...:And I sunned it with smiles,And with soft deceitful wiles.And it grew both day and night,Till it bore an apple bright.And my foe beheld it shine,And he knew that it was mine.And into my garden stole.When the night had veiled the pole;In the morning glad I see,My foe outstretchd beneath the tree. ...Read more of this...

by Robinson, Edwin Arlington

...amiliar pattern of his rug, Wherein I may have sought a consolation—As one may gaze in sorrow on a shell, Or a small apple. So it had come, I thought; And heard, no longer with a wonderment, The faint recurring footsteps of his wife, Who, knowing less than I knew, yet knew more.Now I could read, I fancied, through the fear That latterly was living in her eyes, To the sure source of its authority. But he went on, and I was there to listen: “And though I...Read more of this...

by Wilde, Oscar

...tlers, a great boar the fierce and white-tuskedspoilStolen from Artemis that jealous maidTo please Athena, and the dappled hideOf a tall stag who in some mountain gladeHad met the shaft; and then the herald cried,And from the pillared precinct one by oneWent the glad Greeks well pleased that they their simple vows haddone.And the old priest put out the waning firesSave that one lamp whose restless ruby glowedFor ever in the cell, and the shrill lyresCame fai...Read more of this...

by Service, Robert William

...Today I opened wide my eyes,And stared with wonder and surprise,To see beneath November skiesAn apple blossom peer;Upon a branch as bleak as nightIt gleamed exultant on my sight,A fairy beacon burning brightOf hope and cheer."Alas!" said I, "poor foolish thing,Have you mistaken this for Spring?Behold, the thrush has taken wing,And Winter's near."Serene it seemed to lift its head:"The Winter's wrath I do not dread,Because I am," it p...Read more of this...

by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

...he general earthWith greenness, or the redbreast sit and singBetwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branchOf mossy apple-tree, while the nigh thatchSmokes in the sun-thaw; whether the eave-drops fallHeard only in the trances of the blast,Or if the secret ministry of frostShall hang them up in silent icicles,Quietly shining to the quiet Moon. ...Read more of this...

by Dickinson, Emily

...Heaven is what I cannot reach! The apple on the tree,Provided it do hopeless hang, That "heaven" is, to me.The color on the cruising cloud, The interdicted groundBehind the hill, the house behind, -- There Paradise is found!...Read more of this...

by Wilde, Oscar

...knew the coming of the Queen, and bowedIn wonder at her feet, not for the sakeOf a new Helen would I bid her hand the apple take.Then rise supreme Athena argent-limbed!And, if my lips be musicless, inspireAt least my life: was not thy glory hymnedBy One who gave to thee his sword and lyreLike AEschylos at well-fought Marathon,And died to show that Milton's England still could bear a son!And yet I cannot tread the PorticoAnd live without desire, fear and pain,...Read more of this...

by Frost, Robert

...ny grapes.Before we set ourselves to right the house,The first thing in the morning, out we goTo go the round of apple, cherry, peach,Pine, alder, pasture, mowing, well, and brook.All of a farm it is.”“I know this much:I’m going to put you in your bed, if firstI have to make you build it. Come, the light.”When there was no more lantern in the kitchen,The fire got out through crannies in the stoveAnd danced in yellow wrigglers on the ceiling,A...Read more of this...

by Moore, Marianne

...es nothing, it will sleep;if he cries out, it will not understand."Unnerved by the nightingaleand dazzled by the apple,impelled by "the illusion of a fireeffectual to extinguish fire,"compared with whichthe shining of the earthis but deformity -- a fire"as high as deep as bright as broadas long as life itself,"he stumbles over marriage,"a very trivial object indeed"to have destroyed the attitudein which he stood --the ease of the philosopherunfathered by a...Read more of this...

by Frost, Robert

...ame,One on a side. It comes to little more:There where it is we do not need the wall:He is all pine and I am apple orchard.My apple trees will never get acrossAnd eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors."Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonderIf I could put a notion in his head:"Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't itWhere there are cows? But here there are no cows.Before I buil...Read more of this...

by Neruda, Pablo

...Naked you are simple as one of your hands;Smooth, earthy, small, transparent, round.You've moon-lines, apple pathwaysNaked you are slender as a naked grain of wheat.Naked you are blue as a night in Cuba;You've vines and stars in your hair.Naked you are spacious and yellowAs summer in a golden church.Naked you are tiny as one of your nails;Curved, subtle, rosy, till the day is bornAnd you withdraw to the underground world.As if down...Read more of this...

by Milton, John

...y our exile Made happy: Him by fraud I have seduced From his Creator; and, the more to encrease Your wonder, with an apple; he, thereat Offended, worth your laughter! hath given up Both his beloved Man, and all his world, To Sin and Death a prey, and so to us, Without our hazard, labour, or alarm; To range in, and to dwell, and over Man To rule, as over all he should have ruled. True is, me also he hath judged, or rather Me not, but the brute serpent in whose s...Read more of this...

by Whittier, John Greenleaf

...fall; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug of cider simmered slow, The apples sputtered in a row, And, close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. What matter how the night behaved? What matter how the north-wind raved? Blow high, blow low, not all its snow Could quench our hearth-fire's ruddy glow. O Time and Change! -- with hair as gray As was my sire's that winter day, How strange i...Read more of this...

by Whitman, Walt

...the river! Earth of the limpid gray of clouds, brighter and clearer for my sake! Far-swooping elbow’d earth! rich, apple-blossom’d earth! Smile, for your lover comes! Prodigal, you have given me love! Therefore I to you give love!O unspeakable, passionate love! 22You sea! I resign myself to you also—I guess what you mean; I behold from the beach your crooked inviting fingers; I believe you refuse to go back without feeling of me; We must have a turn t...Read more of this...

by Rich, Adrienne

...uit is flawless,We must at last renounce that ultimate blueAnd take a walk in other kinds of weather.The sourest apple makes its wry announcementThat imperfection has a certain tang.Maybe we shouldn't turn our pockets outTo the last crumb or lingering bit of fluff,But all we can confess of what we areHas in it the defeat of isolation--If not our own, then someone's, anyway.So I come back to saying this good-by,A sort of ceremony of my own,This steppin...Read more of this...

by Chesterton, G K

...tribe feignsToo English to be true.Of a good king on an islandThat ruled once on a time;And as he walked by an apple treeThere came green devils out of the seaWith sea-plants trailing heavilyAnd tracks of opal slime.Yet Alfred is no fairy tale;His days as our days ran,He also looked forth for an hourOn peopled plains and skies that lower,From those few windows in the towerThat is the head of a man.But who shall look from Alfred's hoodOr breathe h...Read more of this...

by Bradstreet, Anne

...Where e're I went, mine innocence was shield.2.41 My quarrels, not for Diadems, did rise,2.42 But for an Apple, Plumb, or some such prize.2.43 My strokes did cause no death, nor wounds, nor scars.2.44 My little wrath did cease soon as my wars.2.45 My duel was no challenge, nor did seek.2.46 My foe should weltering, with his bowels reek.2.47 I had no Suits at law, neighbours to vex,2.48 Nor evidence for land did ...Read more of this...

by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

...where the crisping white Played ever back upon the sloping wave, And took both ear and eye; and o'er the brook Were apple-trees, and apples by the brook Fallen, and on the lawns. "I will rest here," I said, "I am not worthy of the Quest;" But even while I drank the brook, and ate The goodly apples, all these things at once Fell into dust, and I was left alone, And thirsting, in a land of sand and thorns. `And then behold a woman at a door Spinning; and fa...Read more of this...

by Blake, William

...re, the nostrils of air, the mouth of water, thebeard of earth.The weak in courage is strong in cunning.The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor thelion. the horse; how he shall take his prey. The thankful reciever bears a plentiful harvest.If others bad not been foolish. we should be so.The soul of sweet delight. can never be defil'd,When thou seest an Eagle, thou seest a portion of Genius. lift upthy head!A...Read more of this...

by Miller, Alice Duer

...the clustered chimneys, Rustling in the wet south breeze. Gardens trampled down by Cromwell's army, Orchards of apple-trees and pears, Casem*nts that had looked for the Armada, And a ghost on the stairs. XV Johnnie's mother, the Lady Jean, Child of a penniless Scottish peer, Was handsome, worn high-coloured, lean, With eyes like Johnnie's—more blue and clear— Like bubbles of glass in her fine tanned face. Quiet, she was, and so at ease, So perfectly...Read more of this...

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