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... Poems - Página 118por James Russell Lowell - 1853Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1885 - 556 páginas
...ranks with the selectest of Wordsworth and Keats, to whom imaginative diction came intuitively, — " Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold," and both thought and language are felicitous throughout : — " Thou art my tropics and mine Italy... | |
| Henry Davenport Northrop - 1888 - 712 páginas
...though the worldling, scorning, may deride :I love ye all ! ROBERT NICOLL. with TO THE DANDELION. EAR common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing...with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, My childhood's earlie • thoughts are linked thee; The sight of thee calls back the robin's song Who,... | |
| 1889 - 934 páginas
...the meadow, queerly called dandelions. m. HEXEY WABD BEECHER— Star Papers. A Discourse of Flowers. Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing...round May match in wealth, — thou art more dear to mo Than all the prouder summer-blooms may be. n. LOWELL — To the Dandelion. How like a prodigal doth... | |
| Charles Rufus Skinner - 1890 - 528 páginas
...being crowned With a golden dream. Sixth Pupil. THE DANDELIOX. I am the common Dandelion, that grow'th, beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless...Which children pluck, and, full of pride, uphold, High-hciirted buccaneers, o'er joyed that they An Kldorado in the grass have found. Which not the rich... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - 1890 - 976 páginas
...From life, you then are prized; thus prized are poets too. WALTER SAVAGE LANDOB. ¿otl]i- Dunîtdicm. DEAR common flower, that grow'st beside the way. Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold I First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride, uphold — High-hearted... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 452 páginas
...listless spirit stands, Erelong the Great Avenger takes the work from out his hands. TO THE DANDELION. DEAR common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold, High-hearted buccaneers,... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 562 páginas
...listless spirit stands, Erelong the Great Avenger takes the work from out his hands. TO THE DANDELION. DEAR common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless First pledge of blithesome May, Which children plnck, and, full of pride gold, uphold, High-hearted... | |
| Modern Language Association of America - 1891 - 426 páginas
...the dandelion, to find how much the artist can make out of so common a thing ? He speaks of it as " Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First...not the rich earth's ample round May match in wealth " Can you fathom the depth of that expression, " harmless gold " ? How abundant is this " harmless... | |
| 1892 - 430 páginas
..." put on " as buttercups are. Can any one doubt his sincerity when he says of the dandelion, — " Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, thou art more dear to me Than all the prouder summer-blooms may be. My childhood's earliest thoughts... | |
| John Burroughs - 1892 - 272 páginas
...dandelion. The last, I think, is the most pleaslug of. these poems : — u Dear common flower, that growest beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome Jlay." Ta3 dandelion is indeed, in our latitude, the pledge of May. It comes when the grass is short,... | |
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