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Flowers-Dahlia: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Daisy. Bellis. 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.— E. B. BROWNING — Hector in the

Garden. And open pastures, where you scarcely tell White daisies from white dew.— E. B. BROWNING — Aurora Leigh. Bk. I.

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!— BURNS — To a Mountain Daisy.

The daisy's for simplicity and unaffected air.— BURNS — O Luve Will Venture In.

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.— PHEBE CARY — The Fortune in the Daisy.

Yun daiseyd mantels ys the mountayne dyghte.— THOMAS CHATTERTON — Rowley Poems.

Ælla. That men by reason well it calle may The daisie or elles the eye of day The emperice, and floure of floures alle.— CHAUCER — Canterbury Tales. The Legend of Good Women. L. 184.

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.— CHAUCER — Canterbury Tales. The Legend of Good Women. L. 41.

And still at every close she would repeat The burden of the song. The daisy is so sweet.— DRYDEN — The Flower and the Leaf. L. 366.