...difficult to conceive of a better idealization of a common subject than the first three lines of this poem, "Dear, common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold that it is not easy to tell which is his favorite. Is it the dandelion? He is partial to all field...

...see, With reverent and hopeful eyes, Glowing with new-born energies, How great a thing it is to BE ! TO THE DANDELION DEAR common flower, that grow'st...uphold, High-hearted buccaneers, o'erjoyed that they An Eldorado0 in the grass have found, Which not the rich earth's ample round May match in wealth, —...

...Flows valley ward, where calmness is, and by it My heart is floated down into the laud of quiet. 30 TO THE DANDELION. DEAR common flower, that grow'st...and, full of pride uphold, High-hearted buccaneers, o'er joyed that they An Eldorado in the grass have found, Which not the rich earth's ample round May...

...hopeful eyes, Glowing with new-born energies, How great a thing it is to BE ! TO THE DANDELION DEAE common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing...uphold, High-hearted buccaneers, o'erjoyed that they An Eldorado0 in the grass have found, Which not the rich earth's ample round May match in wealth, —...

...it was with the eye of love that Lowell looked upon the world." — FH Underwood. ILLUSTRATIONS. " Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, . Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, Thou art my tropics and mine Italy ; To look at thee unlocks a warmer clime ; The eyes thou givest...

...places. Flowering Season — Every month in the year. Distribution — Around the civilized world. " Dear common flower that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold. • • •••••• Cold such as thine ne'er drew the Spanish prow Through the primeval hush...

...memory, drinking in the meaning of every line. TO THE DANDELION. 1. Dear common flower, that growest beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless...Which children pluck, and, full of pride, uphold, Thou art more dear to me Than all the prouder summer-blooms may be. 2. Then think I of deep shadows...

...eyes of youth, and left instead A look of patient power and iron will. A Gflance behind the Curtain. Dear, common flower, that grow'st beside the way Fringing...with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May. To the Dandelion. Each man is some man's servant; every soul Is by some other's presence quite discrowned;...

...memory, drinking in the meaning of every line. TO THE DANDELION. 1. Dear common flower, that growest beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless...First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, aiid, full of pride, uphold, Thou art more dear to me Than all the prouder summer-blooms may be. 2....

...also impressed with tho beauty of this so-called " common flower," as is shown in his poem — To A DANDELION. Dear common flower that grow'st beside...Eldorado in the grass have found, Which not the rich earth's1 ample round May match in wealth — thou art more dear to me Than all the prouder summer blooms...