...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...

...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,...

...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...

...duty man with 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,...

...duty man with 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...

...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...

...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...

...anything artificial and " put on " as buttercups are. Can any one doubt his sincerity when he says of the dandelion, — " Dear common flower, that grow'st...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...

...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,...

...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...