by Whitman · Cluster: Flowers · Spring · Garden
Abstract
A spring nature lyric celebrating the season’s first dandelion as innocent and renewing after winter.
Connections
Topoi: Eternal Return Motifs: Spring, Nature, Flowers, Seasons, Dawn, Grass Leaves of Grass Themes & Concepts: Innocence and Experience Forms & Genres: Lyric
Testo integrale / Full text
Cluster: SANDS AT SEVENTY
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, calm
as the dawn,
The spring’s first dandelion shows its trustful face.