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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FIRST DANDELION, by WALT WHITMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Simple and fresh and fair from winter's close
Last Line: The spring's first dandelion shows its trustful face.
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds
First Line: Simple and fresh and fair from winter's close
Last Line: The spring's first dandelion shows its trustful face.
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds
Simple and fresh and fair from winter's close emerging,
As if no artifice of fashion, business, politics, had ever been,
Forth from its sunny nook of shelter'd grass -- innocent,
golden, clam as the dawn,
The spring's first dandelion shows its trustful face.
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