Daisies Quotes

“The poet's darling.”

“Thou unassuming Commonplace
Of Nature.”

“And daisy-stars, whose firmament is green.”

“Yun daiseyd mantels ys the mountayne dyghte.”

“The daisy's for simplicity and unaffected air.”

“The Rose has but a Summer reign,
The daisy never dies.”

“Stars are the daisies that begem
The blue fields of the sky.”

“We meet thee, like a pleasant thought,
When such are wanted.”

“daisy”

“Bellis perennis”

“Daisies infinite
Uplift in praise their little glowing hands,
O'er every hill that under heaven expands.”

“Kathleen Kelly: They're so friendly. Don't you think daisies are the friendliest flower?”

“That men by reason will it calle may
The daisie or elles the eye of day
The emperice, and floure of floures alle.”

“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.”

“There is a flower, a little flower
With silver crest and golden eye,
That welcomes every changing hour,
And weathers every sky.”

“Stoop where thou wilt, thy careless hand
Some random bud will meet;
Thou canst not tread, but thou wilt find
The daisy at thy feet.”

“Not worlds on worlds, in phalanx deep,
Need we to prove a God is here;
The Daisy, fresh from Winter's sleep,
Tells of his hand in lines as clear.”

“Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune
I saw the white daisies go down to the sea,
A host in the sunshine, an army in June,
The people God sends us to set our heart free.”

“Spake full well, in language quaint and olden,
One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine,
When he call'd the flowers, so blue and golden,
Stars that on earth's firmament do shine.”

“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!”