Little Joke
Read 'Little Joke' by 'Elinor Wylie' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.
Stripping an almond tree in flower
The wise apothecary's skill
A single drop of lethal power
From perfect sweetness can distill
From bitterness in efflorescence,
With murderous poisons packed therein;
The poet draws pellucid essence
Pure as a drop of metheglin.
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