Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE EVENING PRIMROSE, by SYDNEY BALDWIN SELF


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THE EVENING PRIMROSE, by                    
First Line: Darkly the hay-sweet meadows dream / away the hours
Last Line: Gather from out the mist.
Subject(s): Evening; Sleep; Sunset; Twilight


DARKLY the hay-sweet meadows dream away the hours,
Dim but for lustrous drifts along the rough fence bars
Where the evening primrose holds her silken petalled flowers,
Glimmering beneath the stars.

The scornful butterflies all day sail down the breeze.
With wilted shrivelled blooms she hides her treasure trove.
Day's flowers with myriad charms allure the fickle bees.
She only, shuns their love.

But like a loveless maid she droops till twilight brings
Dewfall and starlight pale. Then opes her chaste gold heart.
To her the night-moths flit on fairy coloured wings,
Painted with elfin art.

Hawk-moths, sober gray as faded evening skies,
Lunas blazoned over with beryl and amethyst,
Cynthias, cloudy buff with wine-red peacock eyes,
Gather from out the mist.





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