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Flowers-Daffodil: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Fair daffadills, we weep to see You haste away so soone; As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained its noone. * * * * * * We have short time to stay as you, We have as short a spring; As quick a growth to meet decay As you or anything.— HERRICK — Daffadills.

When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head t'wards me, Guesse I may, what I must be: First, I shall decline my head; Secondly, I shall be dead : Lastly, safely buryed.— HERRICK — Hesperides. Divination by c

Daffadill. "O fateful flower beside the rill- The daffodil, the daffodil!"— JEAN INGELOW — Persephone. St. 16.

Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty.— Shakespeare — Winter's Tale. Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 118.

When the face of night is fair in the dewy downs And the shining daffodil dies.— TENNYSON — Maud. Pt. III. St. 1.

O Love-star of the unbeloved March, When cold and shrill, Forth flows beneath a low, dim-lighted arch The wind that beats sharp crag and barren hill, And keeps unfilmed the lately torpid rill!— AUBREY DE VERE — Ode to the Daffodil.

Daffy-down-dilly came up in the cold, Through the brown mould Although the March breezes blew keen on her face, Although the white snow lay in many a place.— ANNA WARNER — Daffy-Down-Dilly.

There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar, Although one summer evening's dew could fill Its little cup twice over, ere the star Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold, And be no prodigal.— OSCAR WILDE — The Burden of Stys.

A host of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. S.— WORDSWORTH — I Wandered Lonely as a

Cloud. Dahlia. Dahlia. The garden glows with dahlias large and new.— EBENEZER ELLIOTT — The Vicarage.