Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MARIGOLD, by BAYARD TAYLOR


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MARIGOLD, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Homely, forgotten flower
Last Line: And fades in thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Flowers; Marigolds


HOMELY, forgotten flower,
Under the rose's bower,
Plain as a weed,
Thou, the half-summer long,
Waitest and waxest strong,
Even as waits a song
Till men shall heed.

Then, when the lilies die,
And the carnations lie
In spicy death,
Over thy bushy sprays
Burst with a sudden blaze
Stars of the August days,
With Autumn's breath.

Fain would the calyx hold;
But splits, and half the gold
Spills lavishly:
Frost, that the rose appalls,
Wastes not thy coronals,
Till Summer's lustre falls
And fades in thee.





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