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And a breastplate made of daisies,
Closely fitting, leaf on leaf,
Periwinkles interlaced
Drawn for belt about the waist;
While the brown bees, humming praises,
Shot their arrows round the chief.
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Source: Hector in the Garden
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The daisy's for simplicity and unaffected air.
Author: Robert Burns
Source: O Luve Will Venture In
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Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate,
That fate is thine--no distant date;
Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate,
Full on thy bloom,
Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight
Shall be thy doom!
Author: Robert Burns
Source: To a Mountain Daisy
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Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune
I saw the white daisies go down to the sea,
A host in the sunshine, an army in June,
The people God sends us to set our heart free.
Author: William Bliss Carman
Source: Daisies
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You may wear your virtues as a crown,
As you walk through life serenely,
And grace your simple rustic gown
With a beauty more than queenly.
Though only one for you shall care,
One only speak your praises;
And you never wear in your shining hair,
A richer flower than daisies.
Author: Phoebe Cary
Source: The Fortune in the Daisy
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Yun daisyd mantels ys the mountayne dyghte.
Author: Thomas Chatterton
Source: Rowley Poems--Aella
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That men by reason will it calle may
The daisie or elles the eye of day
The emperice, and floure of floures alle.
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Source: The Legend of Good Women (l. 184)
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That of all the floures in the mede,
Thanne love I most these floures white and rede,
Suche as men callen daysyes in her toune.
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Source: The Legend of Good Women (l. 41)
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Daisies infinite
Uplift in praise their little growing hands,
O'er every hill that under heaven expands.
Author: Ebenezer Elliott ("The Corn Law Rhymer")
Source: Miscellaneous Poems--Spring (l. 13)
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Not worlds on worlds, in phalanx deep,
Need we to prove a God is here;
The daisy, fresh from nature's sleep,
Tells of His hand in lines as clear.
Author: John Mason Good
Source: found in the "Naturalist's Poetical Companion" by Rev. Edward Wilson
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And daisy-stars, whose firmament is green.
Author: Thomas Hood
Source: Plea of the Midsummer Fairies (36)
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Stoop where thou wilt, thy careless hand
Some random bud will meet;
Thou canst not tread, but thou wilt find
The daisy at thy feet.
Author: Thomas Hood
Source: Song
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All summer she scattered the daisy leaves;
They only mocked her as they fell.
She said: "The daisy but deceives;
'He loves me not,' 'he loves me will,'
One story no two daisies tell."
Ah foolish heart, which waits and grieves
Under the daisy's mocking spell.
Author: Helen Hunt Jackson (Helen Hunt)
Source: The Sign of the Daisy
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Spake full well, in language quaint and olden,
One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine,
When he call'd the flowers, so blue and golden,
Stars that on earth's firmament do shine.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Flowers (st. 1)
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Stars are the daisies that begem
The blue fields of the sky,
Beheld by all, and everywhere,
Bright prototypes on high.
Author: David Macbeth Moir
Source: The Daisy (st. 5), Dublin University Magazine
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The Rose has but a Summer reign,
The daisy never dies.
Author: James Montgomery
Source: The Daisy--On Finding One in Bloom on Christmas Day
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There is a flower, a little flower
With silver crest and golden eye,
That welcomes every changing hour,
And weathers every sky.
Author: James Montgomery
Source: A Field Flower
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Bright flowers, whose home is everywhere
Bold in maternal nature's care
And all the long year through the heir
Of joy and sorrow,
Methinks that there abides in thee
Some concord with humanity,
Given to no other flower I see
The forest through.
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: To the Daisy
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The poet's darling.
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: To the Daisy
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We meet thee, like a pleasant thought,
When such are wanted.
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: To the Daisy
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Thou unassuming Commonplace
Of Nature.
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: To the Same Flower
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