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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE EVENING PRIMROSE, by TIMOTHY OTIS PAINE
First Line: The primrose blooms at eventide
Last Line: But made one so by growing there.
Subject(s): Growth; Leaves; Primroses
First Line: The primrose blooms at eventide
Last Line: But made one so by growing there.
Subject(s): Growth; Leaves; Primroses
THE primrose blooms at eventide,
And, where I go, the highway side
It lights up with its yellow blow:
What else it does I do not know —
Except, all day, with dust bestrown
The leaves are gray, and, until blown,
The bud is gray, with slight perfume,
Till eve unfolds a clean sweet bloom.
It grows there in the short green grass
Between where foot and carriage pass:
Where wheels might crush it, should one ride,
And the horse startled sheer aside.
It sprang up there, and there hath grown
And made the narrow green its own:
Chose not a place by nature fair,
But made one so by growing there.
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