The cherry trees bend over and are shedding
On the old road where all that passed are dead,
Their petals, strewing the grass as for a wedding
This early May morn when there is none to wed.
Other poems on Moss Kingdom about Spring:
Spring by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Spring by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Walking One Spring Morning, In the Park on the First Clear Day of Spring, The Cherry Trees by Edward Thomas, A Seduction: in Four Seasons