...related to men, as the poem printed here suggests. He died at Elm wood in 1891. He was one of the most Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing...o'erjoyed that they An Eldorado in the grass have found, My childhood's earliest thoughts are linked with thee; The sight of thee calls back the robin's song,...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...General Characteristics. — Lowell has written verse which shows sympathetic treatment of nature. His lines To the Dandelion : — " Dear common flower,...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,...

...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,...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...