Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WAYSIDE BANK, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poet's Biography First Line: With primroses gentle / she did her bedight Last Line: For the dusty day. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips | ||||||||
WITH primroses gentle She did her bedight, Lovely was her mantle With green and white. The freaked gold cowslip Did her adorn With daisies that open Their eyes at morn. The blue of the speedwell Made her sweet eyne. Her cheek did the wild rose Incarnadine. With honeysuck and clover And woodruff pale, Embroidered over Was her beauty's veil. The road goes past her In dust and heat; Faster and faster Go the wheels, the feet. With roar and rattle They leave her behind, The people, the cattle, They are deaf and blind. But all night thorough She sleeps in sweet dark, Till from the furrow Springs up the lark. She bathes in May dew Her morning face: No flaunting garden Shall her surpass. And many a traveller Who goes the way Keeps a green thought of her For the dusty day. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...RICHARD, WHAT'S THAT NOISE? by RICHARD HOWARD LOOKING FOR THE GULF MOTEL by RICHARD BLANCO RIVERS INTO SEAS by LYNDA HULL DESTINATIONS by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE ONE WHO WAS DIFFERENT by RANDALL JARRELL THE CONFESSION OF ST. JIM-RALPH by DENIS JOHNSON SESTINA: TRAVEL NOTES by WELDON KEES TO H. B. (WITH A BOOK OF VERSE) by MAURICE BARING |
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