•   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,
        Which not the rich earth’s ample round
      May match in wealth!—thou...

  • The Dandelion's pallid tube

    Astonishes the Grass,

    And Winter instantly becomes

    An infinite Alas —


    The tube uplifts a signal Bud

    And then a shouting Flower, —

    The Proclamation of the Suns

    That sepulture is o'er.