Fruit

"The kindly fruits of the earth."

"Here mulberries bleed; the grape’s lithe cluster bends; And blue the rush-bound cucumber depends."

"May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in still, dustgreen trees. Red bananas ripen. Jackfruits burst."

"Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer to you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen."

"And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat."

"Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: "Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy..."

"Eve, with her basket, was Deep in the bells and grass Wading in bells and grass Up to her knees, Picking a dish of sweet Berries and plums to eat, Down in the bells and grass Under the trees."

"Whig and whey whilst thou lust, And bramble-berries, Pie-lid and pastry-crust, Pears, plums, and cherries."

"The barberry and currant must escape Though her small clusters imitate the grape."

"Plant Trees you may, and see them shoot Up with your Children, to be serv’d To your clean Boards, and the fair’st Fruit To be preserv’d: And learn to use their several Gums; ’Tis innocence in the sweet blood Of Cherry, Apricocks and Plums To be imbru’d."

"Silver-pink peach, venetian green glass of medlars and sorb-apples."

"I lose the sunlight, lovely above all else; Bright stars I loved the next, and the moon’s face, Ripe gourds, and fruit of apple-tree and pear."