In Wordsworth’s “To the Daisy,” primrose is celebrated as an early spring herald: “Primrose tufts, in the green wood, / Among the mossy stones”; In Victorian floriography, primrose meant “childhood” or “first love”; Matthew Arnold’s “The Scholar-Gipsy” evokes primroses in pastoral escape: “Crossing the stripling Thames at Bab-lock-hithe, / Trailing in the cool stream thy fingers wet, / As the slow punt swings round… / …and the primroses grow”; Modern poets use primrose for hope after hardship: “Primrose pushes through February’s last frost”; In sensory poetry, its pale yellow evokes soft light: “Primrose glow—dawn held in a cup”; In eco-poetry, native primroses signal healthy woodland: “Where primrose carpets, the soil remembers.”