Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE PRIMROSE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poet's Biography First Line: Ask me why I send you here Last Line: What fainting hopes are in a lover. Subject(s): Primroses | ||||||||
ASK me why I send you here This sweet Infanta of the year: Ask me why I send to you This Primrose, thus bepearled with dew; I will whisper to your ears The sweets of Love are mixed with tears. Ask me why this flower does show So yellow-green, and sickly too; Ask me why the stalk is weak And bending, yet it doth not break; I will answer, These discover What fainting hopes are in a lover. | Other Poems of Interest...FIFTH AVENUE-SPRING AFTERNOON by LOUIS UNTERMEYER THE EVENING PRIMROSE by JOHN CLARE TO PRIMROSES FILLED WITH MORNING DEW by ROBERT HERRICK THE EARLY PRIMROSE by HENRY KIRKE WHITE LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 6. SPRING by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM TO A PRIMROSE by EDNA S. CODDINGTON TO A TEXAS PRIMROSE by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN HOW PRIMROSES CAME GREEN by ROBERT HERRICK A CHRISTMAS CAROL, SUNG TO THE KING IN THE PRESENCE AT WHITEHALL by ROBERT HERRICK |
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