Goldenrod Quotes

• I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Fall, Autumn, Land

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• The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Yellow, Apples, Bending Down

  Helen Hunt Jackson, “September”

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• Because its myriad glimmering plumes Like a great army's stir and wave; Because its golden billows blooms, The poor man's barren walks to lave: Because its sun-shaped blossoms show How souls receive the light of God, And unto earth give back that glow I thank him for the Goldenrod.

  Lucy Larcom

  Army, Men, Light

  Lucy Larcom (1881). “Wild Roses of Cape Ann: And Other Poems”

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• You can see the goldenrod, that most tenacious and pernicious and beauteous of all New England flora, bowing away from the wind like a great and silent congregation.

  Stephen King

  Wind, England, Silent

  Stephen King (2000). “Salem's Lot”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• September is a sweep of dusky, purple asters, a sumac branch swinging a fringe of scarlet leaves, and the bittersweet scene of wild grapes when I walk down the lane to the mailbox. September is a golden month of mellow sunlight and still clear days. ... Small creatures in the grass, as if realizing their days are numbered, cram the night air with sound. Everywhere goldenrod is full out.

  Jean Hersey

  Night, Air, Purple

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• We blame Walt Disney for goldenrod's undeserved bad name. Despite Sneezy's pronouncement, plants such as goldenrod with heavy, insect-carried pollen rarely cause allergic reaction.

  Janet Macunovich

  Names, Causes, Blame

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• The hollows are heavy and dank
  With the steam of the Goldenrods.

  Bayard Taylor

  Steam, Heavy, Dank

  Bayard Taylor (1875). “Home Pastorals, Ballads and Lyrics”, p.152

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