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Flowers-Cowslip: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

The cowslips tall her pensioners be; In their gold coats spots you see: Those be rubies, fairy favours; In those freckles live their savours. Midsummer-Night's Dream. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 10. The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet and green clover.— Shakespeare — Henry V. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 48.

And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.— TENNYSON — The May Queen. St. 8.

And ye talk together still, In the language wherewith Spring Letters cowslips on the hill.— TENNYSON — Adeline. St. 5.

Crocus. Crocus. Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling Round thoughts which owe their birth To thee, and to the humble spot Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.— BERNARD BARTON — To a Crocus.

Hail to the King of Bethlehem, Who weareth in his diadem The yellow crocus for the gem Of his authority! LONGFELLOw-Christus. Pt. II. The Golden Legend. IX. Daffodil. Narcissus Pseudo-Narcissus, Brazen helm of daffodillies, With a glitter toward the light. Purple violets for the mouth, Breathing perfumes west and south; And a sword of flashing lilies, Holden ready for the fight.— E. B. BROWNING — Hector in the Garden.

The daffodil is our doorside queen; She pushes upward the sword already, To spot with sunshine the early green. BRYANT An Invitation to the Country. What ye have been ye still shall be When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers!— AUSTIN DOBSON — To Daffodils.