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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE DANDELION, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poet's Biography
First Line: Studding the grass with golden sheen
Last Line: Loved by its well-loved light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds
First Line: Studding the grass with golden sheen
Last Line: Loved by its well-loved light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds
STUDDING the grass with golden sheen,
Like starlet fallen on the green,
A blossom prized by none,
Unheeded or passed by with scorn,
Gleam from the shadow of the thorn,
An image of the sun.
And thus despised it droopeth not,
But, heedless of its lowly lot,
Still turns its golden eye
Upwards, upwards to the sun,
Ceasing not till evening dun
Drives him from the sky.
The yellow sunbeams do not know
That for their love it is too low,
The sunbeams kiss it bright,
And so through the long summer days
It lifts on high its happy gaze,
Loved by its well-loved light.
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