 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...  An English Grammar: For Use in High and Normal Schools and in Colleges - Page 261by Alma Blount, Clark Sutherland Northup - 1914 - 375 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Rufus Skinner - Arbor Day - 1890 - 528 pages
...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 - American poetry - 1890 - 976 pages
...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 - American poetry - 1890 - 452 pages
...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 - American poetry - 1890 - 562 pages
...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 - Electronic journals - 1891 - 426 pages
...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... | |
 | Appalachian Mountains - 1892 - 430 pages
..." 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 - Natural history - 1892 - 272 pages
...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,... | |
 | Harriet Louise Keeler - Botany - 1894 - 86 pages
...heads. The heads solitary on hollow milky scapes. The flowers seated together upon a soft fleshy disk. Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold!— Lowell. The common dandelion belongs to the great family of Compositse, which is distinguished by having... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1894 - 348 pages
...arrow-seed ' are beautifully separated and expanded. 46, 8. —A flower all gold. So Lowell wrote, "De :r common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold." — To the Dandelion. 46, 9.— bravely. 'Finely,' 'admirably.' This sense is archaic, but was common... | |
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