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“The royal kingcup bold
Dares not don his coat of gold.”
Edwin Arnold Quotes Source: Almond Blossoms
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“He likes the poor things of the world the best,
I would not, therefore, if I could be rich.
It pleases him t stoop for buttercups.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. IV)
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“All will be gay when noontide wakes anew
The buttercups, the little children's dower.”
Robert Browning Quotes Source: Home Thoughts--From Abroad
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“The buttercups, bright-eyed and bold,
Held up their chalices of gold
To catch the sunshine and the dew.”
Julia C.R. Dorr Quotes Source: Centennial Poem (l. 165)
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“Fair is the kingcup that in meadow blows,
Fair is the daisy that beside her grows.”
John Gay Quotes Source: Shepherd's Week--Monday (l. 43)
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“And O the buttercups! that field
O' the cloth of gold, when pennons swam--
Where France set up his lilied shield,
His oriflamb,
And Henry's lion-standard rolled:
What was it to their matchless sheen,
Their million million drops of gold
Among the green!”
Jean Ingelow Quotes Source: The Letter L Present (st. 3)
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“Against her ankles as she trod
The lucky buttercups did nod.”
Jean Ingelow Quotes Source: Reflections
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“The buttercups across the field
Made sunshine rifts of splendor.”
Dinah Maria Mulock (used pseudonym Mrs. Craik) Quotes Source: A Silly Song
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“When buttercups are blossoming,
The poets sand, 'tis best to wed:
So all for love we paired in Spring--
Blanche and I--ere youth had sped.”
Edmund C. Stedman Quotes Source: Bohemia
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