Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FOLLOWING A BEE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES



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First Line: Of primrose boys
Last Line: I followed a bee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


Of primrose boys
April has many;
He seems as fond
Of them as any;
He shows the world
Those boys in gold.

But violets are
His girls, whom he
Shuts up in some
Green nunnery:
So does he prove
His deepest love.

April, a girl
Of yours is found;
High walls of grass
Hemmed her around:
April, forgive me —
I followed a bee.





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