If only we might fall Like cherry blossoms in the spring So pure and radiant.

-Anonymous
c.1945  Quoted in Ivan Morris The Nobility of Failure (1975).

I'll seize the rosebuds in their perfumed bed, The violet knots, like curious mazes spread O'er all the garden, taste the ripened cherry, The warm, firm apple, tipped with coral berry. Then will I visit with a wandering kiss The vale of lilies and the bower of bliss, And where the beauteous region doth divide Into two milky ways, my lips shall slide Down those smooth alleys, wearing as I go A track for lovers on the printed snow.

-Carew,Thomas
  'A Rapture'.

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide.

-Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)
  A Shropshire Lad, no.2.

And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.

-Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)
  A Shropshire Lad, no.2.

Then hath thy orchard fruit, thy garden flowers, Fresh as the air, and new as are the hours. The early cherry, with the later plum, Fig, grape, and quince, each in his time doth come: The blushing apricot, and woolly peach Hang on thy walls, that every child may reach.

-Jonson, Ben
  The Forest,'To Penshurst'.