Poems About The Dandelion
See Also: Dandelon Prose, Poetic Verses and Selected Passages
To the Dandelion - James Russell Lowell
Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way,
Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold,..
May - Henry Sylvester Cornwell
The golden dandelions more and more
Glow, as the warm sun kisses them again...
The Dandelions - Helen Gray Cone
Upon a showery night and still,
Without a sound of warning,...
The Dandelion Cycle - Emillie Poulsson
"Pretty little Goldilocks, shining in the sun,
Pray, what will become of you when the summer’s done ?"...
Young Dandelion - D.M Mulock
Young Dandelion...
On a hedge-side..
Said young Dandelion,
Who'll be my bride?...
The Dandelion - Vachel Lindsay
O DANDELION, rich and haughty, King of village flowers!..
To A Dandelion - Helen M. Johnson
Blessings on thy sunny face,
In my heart thou hast a place,
Humble Dandelion!..
The Dandelion's Pallid Tube - Emily Dickinson
The Dandelion's pallid tube
Astonishes the Grass,...
Oh Tell Me Not Of Heavenly Halls - Celia Thaxter
Content am I. More joy it brings
To watch the dandelion's star...
Dandy Dandelion - Christopher Morley
When Dandy Dandelion wakes,
And combs his yellow hair,
The ant his cup of dewdrop takes...
And sets his bed to air;
The First Dandelion - Walt Whitman
Simple and fresh and fair from winter's close emerging,
As if no artifice of fashion...
Dandelion - Hilda Conkling
LITTLE soldier with the golden helmet,
O What are you guarding on my lawn?...
The Dandelion - Mary N. Prescott
Little gypsy dandelion..
Dancing in the Sun,..
Have you any curls to sell?..
"Not a single one!" ..
The Hawkbit - Charles G.D. Roberts
How sweetly on the autumn scene,
When haws are red amid the green,
The hawkbit shines with face of cheer,...
Little Dandelion - Helen Barron Bostwick
Bright little Dandelion
Lights up the meads,
Swings on her slender foot,...
The Dandelion - Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood
Golden the dandelion—Miser, for shame!
Spread out for bee or worm—all hoards the same...
The Dandelion - Kate Louise Wheeler
One day, in spring, I took a walk
And spied, within a field of green,...
The Dandelion - Mrs. E. P. Erskine
"Oh, dandelion, yellow as gold,
What do you do all day?"
Dandelion - Ida Celia Whittier
The yellow dandelions, discouraged, bloom
In city yards, sprinkled with dusty grass.
Even like one of them, O thought of gloom!
My life must pass...
Dandy Little Fellow - Nellie M. Garabrant
There's a dandy little fellow,..
Who dresses all in yellow,..
In yellow with an overcoat of green;..
With his hair all crisp and curly,...
Already - Celia Thaxter
ALREADY the dandelions
Are changed into vanishing ghosts;...
The First Dandelion - William Whitman Bailey
Find a dandelion
In green and gold bedlight
He is a boble scion,
A brave and gallant knight;..
"A Buttercup" - Dandelion Poetry
Near by--grown old, and gone to seed,
A dandelion grew;
To right and left with every breeze...
The Dandelion Children's Poem - McMurray's Classics
Bright little dandelion,
Downy, yellow face,..
Harvest - Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz
The dandelion plume doth pass ..
Vaguely to and fro,—
The unquiet spirit of a flower...
May - Henry Sylvester Cornwell
The golden dandelions more and more
Glow, as the warm sun kisses them again...
Dandelion - Kate Louise Brown
Saw him peeping from my pawn,
A tiny spot of yellow,...
To A Dandelion In Hawaii - E.S. Goodhue
Like meeting far from home some well-known friend,
Your dear, familiar face gladdens my heart...
Dandelion - Annie Rankin Annan
For one small plumule still adrift,
The wind-blown dandelion's gift,...
The Dandelion's Advice - Adalena Frances Dyer
A dandelion small and shy
Was blooming in October..
A Hint From Home - Adalena Frances Dyer
I saw a dandelion's sunny face
To-day, shut in by walls of brick and stone...
Untainted Gold - Adalena Frances Dyer
Instead of golden streets and pearly gate,
The City of my Dreams bears fragrant bloom...
A Hint From Home - Adalena Frances Dyer
I saw a dandelion's sunny face
To-day, shut in by walls of brick and stone...
Ten Happy Dandelions - Kathy KJ Nanny
Pretty token of the spring!
Hark! we hear the bluebirds sing...
Who Is She - Julie M. Lippmann
When she's young she's tall and slender,
Any faint young breeze could bend her.
She grows stout as she grows old,..
"Dandelion Curls" - Evaleen Stein
Pretty token of the spring!
Hark! we hear the bluebirds sing...
Sir Dandelion - Mrs. E.J.H. Goodfellow
Come, Sir Dandelion,
So old and gray,
Will you tell to me
The time of day?..
The Dandelion Vase - Jennifer L. Holte
This vase may be quite tiny,
but its importance is monumental and grand!
For the love that went into each picked 'flower,..
"Dandelions" - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Welcome children of the Spring, In your garbs of green and gold, Lifting up your sun-crowned heads, On the verdant plain and wold...
The Dandelion - Wilis Boyd Allen
A dandelion in a meadow grew,
Among the waving grass and cowslips yellow...
Winged Seeds - Helen Gray Cone
Oh, gold-green wings, and bronce-green wings,
and rose-tinged wings, that down the breeze...
Rock Weeds - Celia Thaxter (Selected Verses)
buttercups and dandelions blaze,
And throws in glimmering patches here and there,..
Dance Of The Dandelion - Suzannah Snow (Video)
The dance of the dandelions.. dainty, delicate, down to the path of the darkness, up to the path of brightness, collecting all the dreams and wishes...
"A Runaway" - Alice E. Allen
Althought I love her so,
Father says she's got to go,
Else no pretty grass will grow,
As sure as fate!..
Dandelion - George Cooper
Dandelion, Dandelion, Where's your cap of gold,
Dandelion, Dandelion, Summer's coming on,...
April - Helen Hunt Jackson
Dandelion through the meadow makes
A royal road, with seals of gold...
Oriole's Nest Song - Clara Dotty Bates
Feather of the dandelion,
Silk of the thistle
Make the pretty blankets
For their bed...
Al Fresco - James Russel Lowell (Verse)
The dandelions and buttercups
Gild all the lawn; the drowsy bee,..
Dandelions Gold and Green - Icelandic Folksong (verse)
Dandelion of gold and green,
grassy banks with berries growing...
"A Rhapsody" - John Clare (verse)
Tis May and yet the March flower Dandelion
Is still in bloom among the Emerald grass...
"Fear No More The Heat O' The Sun - William Shakespeare (Selected Verse)
A Verse from the only poem by William Shaespeare (from Cymbeline) which makes a possible reference to the Dandelion.
Smokey the Bear Sutra - Gary Snyder (Excerpt)
An excerpt from Gary Snyder's Poem "Smokey and the Beart Sutra" which presents environmental concerns in the form of a Buddhist sutra.
Dandelion - Amy Ella Blanchard
“Golden-head, Golden-head,
The sun must have kissed you.”
Lion's Tooth - Mario Petrucci (Excerpt)
A video and reading of a haunting but beautiful poem about love, loss and consciousness, inspired by the dandelion flower.