| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Daisy |
| | | The poets darling. Wordsworth. | 1 |
| | Thou unassuming commonplace |
| Of nature. |
Wordsworth. | 2 |
| | That well by reason men it call may |
| The daisie, or els the eye of the day, |
| The emprise, and floure of no floures all. |
Chaucer. | 3 |
| | Small service is true service while it lasts: |
| Of humblest friends, bright creature! scorn not one: |
| The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, |
| Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun. |
Wordsworth. | 4 |
| | Myriads of daisies have shown forth in flower |
| Near the larks nest, and in their natural hour |
| Have passed away; less happy than the one |
| That, by the unwilling ploughshare, died to prove |
| The tender charm of poetry and love. |
Wordsworth. | 5 |
| | Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flowr, |
| Thous met me in an evil hour; |
| For I maun crush amang the stoure |
| Thy slender stem: |
| To spare thee now is past my powr, |
| Thou bonnie gem. |
Burns. | 6 |
| | Of all the floures in the mede, |
| Than love I most these floures white and rede, |
| Soch that men callen daisies in our toun. |
Chaucer. | 7 | | |
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