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9 Quotes for 'Buttercups' in the Database.
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Buttercups Quotes
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The royal kingcup bold
Dares not don his coat of gold.
Author: Edwin Arnold
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.
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. IV)
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All will be gay when noontide wakes anew
The buttercups, the little children's dower.
Author: Robert Browning
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.
Author: Julia C.R. Dorr
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.
Author: John Gay
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!
Author: Jean Ingelow
Source: The Letter L Present (st. 3)
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Against her ankles as she trod
The lucky buttercups did nod.
Author: Jean Ingelow
Source: Reflections
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The buttercups across the field
Made sunshine rifts of splendor.
Author: Dinah Maria Mulock (used pseudonym Mrs. Craik)
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.
Author: Edmund C. Stedman
Source: Bohemia
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