Read full poem →As I would free the white almond from the green husk
So would I strip your trappings off,
Dictionary Entry
A type of tree nut.
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “almond”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →After her dead flowers,
Like the little almond-tree
Which the frost hurt.
Read full poem →Light runner through tasselled orchards.
You are an almond flower unsheathed
Leaping and flickering between the budded branches.
Read full poem →Upon this brim the eglantine and rose,
The tamarisk, olive, and the almond tree,
As kind companions, in one union grows,
Read full poem →Her skin was white as almond milk
Slow trickling from the flower;
Read full poem →White as an almond are thy shoulders;
As new almonds stripped from the husk.
Read full poem →After her dead flowers,
Like the little almond-tree
Which the frost hurt.
Read full poem →Sweeping, eye-earnestly, through almond^ Aides :
Read full poem →The almond-groves of Samarcand,
Bokhara, where red lilies blow,
Read full poem →By the soft breathing of the gale,
And in the almond-scented vale
The lonely nightingale is heard.