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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DANDELIONS, by FRANK WILMOT Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw her on the yellow rise
Last Line: Though I look every day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Vision; Weeds
First Line: I saw her on the yellow rise
Last Line: Though I look every day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Vision; Weeds
I SAW her on the yellow rise
Across the stony creek;
O soft water! O brown stones!
Is it of her you speak?
Out ploughing on the flat I was --
Deep down the furrows went --
But all my voice and all my sight
Were on the vision spent.
The ribbon on the hat she wore
Shook out on the blue air:
But something pulled my gaze aback;
A tree-stump fouled the share.
When I fixed up the thing and turned
To feast my eyes again,
There was no lady going through
The dandelion plain.
Was she a bird from Heaven come?
'Tis not for man to say!
She goes no more to the yellow rise
Though I look every day.
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