Daisy. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Daisy


Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies. Burns.—To a Mountain Daisy, Verse 5.	1
Like a fair flower by the keen share oppress’d. Dryden’s Virgil.—The Æneid, Book IX. Line 435.	2
A purple flower cut down by the plough. Davidson.—The Æneid, sup.	3
Wee modest crimson-tipped flower, Thou’s met me in an evil hour; For I maun crush amang the stour Thy slender stem; To spare thee now is past my power Thou bonnie gem! Burns.—To a Mountain Daisy, Verse 1.	4
There is Mosgiel farm; and that’s the very field where Burns ploughed up the daisy. Wordsworth.—Vol. V. Page 243. [Burns seems to have had the passage from Virgil in his mind when he painted the mountain Daisy.]	5