Elinor Morton Wylie (September 7, 1885 – December 16, 1928 / Somerville, New Jersey)

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.