 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 grass have found,...  Appalachia - Seite 491892Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones - 1897 - 602 Seiten
...long and well. History of their deeds can tell — But ourselves must set us free. THE DANDELION. |EAR 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,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1898 - 538 Seiten
...duty man with listless spirit stands, Ere long 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 gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride, uphold, High-hearted buccaneers,... | |
 | 1899 - 260 Seiten
...sea." Lowell revealed a frank, unquestioning pleasure in outdoor life ; he rejoiced in the bobolink and the dandelion : — " Dear common flower, that grow'st...the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May." With the same simple, childlike pleasure, coupled with an artist's... | |
 | Edith Rickert - 1912 - 604 Seiten
...more have a poet, Such as it had In the ages glad, Long ago! TO THE DANDELION BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL 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,... | |
 | Will David Howe - 1912 - 328 Seiten
...perils. The lieutenant grasped the hand of the other, as he said— TO THE DANDELION JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL 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,... | |
 | Augusta Choate, Gertrude Hartman - 1912 - 174 Seiten
...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 the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Thou art more dear to me Than all the prouder summer blooms may be.... | |
 | Charles Maurice Stebbins - 1912 - 400 Seiten
...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 the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride, uphold, High-hearted buccaneers,... | |
 | 1915 - 416 Seiten
...they An Eldorado in the grass have found, Which not the rich earth's ample round May match in wealth, thou art more dear to me Than all the prouder summer-blooms may be. Gold such as thine ne'er drew the Spanish prow Through the primeval hush of Indian seas, Nor wrinkled... | |
 | Abram Linwood Urban - 1913 - 160 Seiten
...wildlings, bloodroot, trillium, windflower, bluets, and Lowell's loved dandelion, with its "harmless gold." "Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold." MY GARDEN This Sweet Mignonette itself grows as & OF DREAMS common wee<jm Northern Africa, whence it... | |
 | Alma Blount, Clark Sutherland Northup - 1914 - 400 Seiten
...coin, some Brazil, some pieces of eight, some gold, and some silver. — DEFOE, Robinson Crusoe. 35. 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,... | |
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