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Subject: PRIMROSES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PRIMROSE DAME, by GLEESON WHITE    Poem Text                    
First Line: She has a primrose at her breast
Last Line: I almost wish I were a tory.
Subject(s): Politics & Government; Primroses


APRIL, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O come across the hillside! The april month is here
Last Line: To reign there all the song-time, the child-time of the year.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): April; Primroses; Spring


BALLAD OF THE PRIMROSE WAY, by ROSE EDITH MILLS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Life, through the arc of a century
Last Line: Earth's olympus is primrose way.
Subject(s): Life; Primroses; Youth


EVENING PRIMROSE, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When once the sun sinks in the west
Last Line: It faints and withers, and is done
Subject(s): Primroses


EVENING PRIMROSE, by JOHN LANGHORNE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: There are that love the shades of life
Subject(s): Evening Primroses


EVENING PRIMROSE, by DOROTHY PARKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You know the bloom, unearthly white
Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy
Subject(s): Evening Primroses


FAUST BOOK: MEPHISTOPHELES AND THE PRIMROSE, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Mephisto smiled at the primrose
Last Line: To mention but a few
Subject(s): Devil; Primroses


FIFTH AVENUE-SPRING AFTERNOON, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The world's running over with color
Last Line: Rises your face!
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Fields; Fifth Avenue, New York City; Flowers; Primroses; Spring; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


HOW PRIMROSES CAME GREEN, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Virgins, time-past, known were these
Last Line: Sickly girles, they beare of you.
Subject(s): Primroses


IN THE CONVENT GARDEN, by EDWARD MASLIN HULME    Poem Text                    
First Line: Within the convent garden, at the dusk
Last Line: Near where the roses on the old wall dream.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Primroses; Roses


LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 6. SPRING, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But haste we! - 'tis that merry time of year
Last Line: Untiring sing their olden songs anew.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Flowers; Primroses; Singing & Singers; Spring; Violets; Songs


MY PRIMROSE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My little primrose, gentle flower
Last Line: But we are happy through it all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Primroses


OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 11, by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Soon will sweet primrose be a faded crone
Last Line: To live in silence and to pass unknown.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Primroses


ON SEEING A VERY EARLY PRIMROSE, by THOMAS KENNEDY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Why come ye sae early, my bonnie wee flow'r?
Last Line: Take another short nap and lie still.
Subject(s): Flowers; Primroses


PRIMROSE, by THOMAS CAREW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ask me why I send you here
Subject(s): Mnemonics; Primroses


PRIMROSE BANK, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis spring: day roams with flowers
Last Line: The mind in shaping heavens %as one continued joy
Subject(s): Primroses


PRIMROSES, by ALFRED AUSTIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Latest, earliest of the year
Last Line: Go as gently as you came.
Subject(s): Primroses


THE EARLY PRIMROSE, by HENRY KIRKE WHITE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Mild offspring of a dark and sullen sire!
Last Line: Serene the ills of life.
Variant Title(s): To An Early Primrose
Subject(s): Flowers; Primroses


THE EVENING PRIMROSE, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When once the sun sinks in the west
Subject(s): Primroses


THE EVENING PRIMROSE, by TIMOTHY OTIS PAINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The primrose blooms at eventide
Last Line: But made one so by growing there.
Subject(s): Growth; Leaves; Primroses


THE EVENING PRIMROSE, by DOROTHY PARKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You know the bloom, unearthly white
Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy
Subject(s): Evening Primroses


THE PRIMROSE, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Welcome, pale primrose! Starting up between
Last Line: The welcome news of sweet returning spring.
Subject(s): Primroses


THE PRIMROSE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ask me why I send you here
Last Line: What fainting hopes are in a lover.
Subject(s): Primroses


THE PRIMROSE OF THE ROCK, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A rock there is whose homely front
Last Line: A court for deity.
Subject(s): Primroses


THE WEE PRIMROSE, by HUGH MACDONALD    Poem Text                    
First Line: On a green mossy bank, 'neath a bonnie birk tree
Last Line: To soothe the bit heart o' his bonnie wee mate.
Subject(s): Primroses


THE WEE YELLOW PRIMROSE, by ROBERT TENNANT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wee yellow primrose, sweet child o' the spring
Last Line: And lessons worth learning frae them I shall learn.
Subject(s): Flowers; Primroses


TO A PRIMROSE, by EDNA S. CODDINGTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Prim little primrose
Last Line: By thee on the sill.
Subject(s): Flowers; Primroses


TO A TEXAS PRIMROSE, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A flake of cloud was trembling cast
Last Line: This side of castaly.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding
Subject(s): Primroses


TO PRIMROSES FILLED WITH MORNING DEW, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why do ye weep, sweet babes? Can tears
Last Line: Conceiv'd with grief are, and with teares brought forth.
Subject(s): Grief; Primroses; Sorrow; Sadness


TO THE EVENING PRIMROSE, by BERNARD BARTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair flower, that shun'st the glare of day
Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet
Subject(s): Evening Primroses