Apples bring out poetic creativity, all the more so because the West has seen them as the forbidden fruit. I share here a selection of tempting apple poems.
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Apples That Taste of Earth and Song
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "August", "eve's version", "Song of the Wander Aengus", apples, Christina Rossetti, fruit, Goblin Market, Grace Schulman, Grimm Brothers, John Milton, Lucille Clifton, Paradise Lost, Snow White, temptation, the fall, William Butler Yeats Comments closed
Beholding the Summer Dead before Me
Shakespeare and Swinburne both write powerful poems about autumn.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Hendecasyllabics", "Sonnet 73", Autumn, Seasons, William Shakespeare Comments closed
