April Snow
from From a Bay-window
Oh, your words are bitter to me
As these last flakes of snow are
To the little shining buds; but no bud
That glistens like a raindrop on a tree
Is so fresh with love.
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Pearl Andelson Sherry (1899-1966)
from Poetry, December 1921
[Poem is in the public domain in Canada and the United States]
Mattwj2002, Snow outside Minneapolis April, 18, 2013. CC BY-SA, Wikimedia Commons
Pearl Andelson Sherry biography
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