 THE DANDELION. DEAR common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride, uphold, High-hearted buccaneers, o'erjoyed that they An Eldorado in the...  The North American Review - Page 442edited by - 1848Full view - About this book
 | John Burroughs - 1909 - 312 pages
...flowers, the violet and the dandelion. The last, I think, is the most pleasing of these poems: — "Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way,...with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May." The dandelion is indeed, in our latitude, the pledge 114 of May. It comes when the grass is short,... | |
 | 1910 - 528 pages
...I'll marry you yit on a four-p'ny bit As a time-expired man. To the Dandelion BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing...Which children pluck, and, full of pride, uphold, High hearted buccaneers, o'erjoyed that they An El Dorado in the grass have found, Which not the rich... | |
 | 1910 - 624 pages
...I'll marry you yit on a four-p'ny bit As a time-expired man. To the Dandelion BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing...Which children pluck, and, full of pride, uphold, High hearted buccaneers, o'erjoyed that they An El Dorado in the grass have found, Which not the rich... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1911 - 446 pages
...Characteristics. — Lowell has written verse Which shows sympaj:hetic_treatrnent-of-nature. His lines To the Dandelion : — " Dear common flower, that...May Which children pluck, and full of pride uphold . . . thou art more dear to me Than all the prouder summer-blooms may be," 1 Democracy and Other Addresses,... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1911 - 452 pages
...Lowell has written verse which shows sympathetic treatment of nature. His lines To tIwJ3au4£lion: — " Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing...May Which children pluck, and full of pride uphold . . . thou art more dear to me Than all the prouder summer-blooms may be," 1 Democracy and Other Addresses,... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1912 - 696 pages
...breeze. Beauty was all around him, and delight; But from that eve he was alone on earth. 160 1843TO THE DANDELION Dear common flower, that grow'st beside...uphold, High-hearted buccaneers, o'erjoyed that they 5 An Eldorado in the grass have found, Which not the rich earth's ample round May match in wealth,... | |
 | Charles Maurice Stebbins - 1912 - 400 pages
...Returning as before, We see the bloom of birth Make young again the earth. TO THE DANDELION — NORA PERRY. DEAR common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing...uphold, High-hearted buccaneers, o'erjoyed that they An El Dorado in the grass have found, Which not the rich earth's ample round May match in wealth, thou... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1912 - 702 pages
...smote the breeze. Beauty was all around him. and delight; But from that eve he was alone on earth. 160 TO THE DANDELION Dear common flower, that grow'st...and, full of pride, uphold, High-hearted buccaneers, o'crjoyed that they An Eldorado in the grass have found, Which not the rich earth's ample round May... | |
 | Frank Honywell Fenno - 1912 - 348 pages
...of lovelier hue, Beneath the dew-drop's weight reclining, More sweet through wat'ry lustre shinine. THE DANDELION. Dear common flower, that grow'st beside...Which children pluck, and, full of pride, uphold, High hearted buccaneers, o'erjoyed that they An El Dorado in the grass have found, Which not the rich... | |
 | Augusta Choate, Gertrude Hartman - 1912 - 174 pages
...Excalibur Before him at his crowning borne, the sword That rose from out the bosom of the lake. 53. Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing...with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Thou art more dear to me Than all the prouder summer blooms may be. 120 54. Mounted upon a mule, the... | |
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