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Subject: DAISIES
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First Line: "oh, dear little daisy, come whisper me softly"
Last Line: "somebody holds me quite close to his bosom, / and whispers, 'my darling, the daisy has lied.'"
Subject(s): Daisies;flowers


A HINT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Our daisy lay down
Last Line: "why, that's why I kiss you! She said."
Subject(s): Babies;daisies;flowers; Infants


A LAMENT, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the twilight, silent smiled
Last Line: Since, dear maiden, dead thou art.
Subject(s): Daisies; Death; Flowers; Lament; Love; Dead, The


BUTTERCUPS AND DAISIES, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I never see a young hand hold
Last Line: With buttercups and daisies.
Subject(s): Buttercups; Daisies; Flowers; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones


CHICORY AND DAISIES, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lift your flowers / on bitter stems
Last Line: With her teeth!
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers


CHILDLESS, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: When bewhiles there's the soft-fallin' show'rs
Last Line: Jist for daisies to twine!
Subject(s): Childlessness; Daisies; Flowers


CHILDREN DANCE: 2. THE DAISY, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sky of december is limpid
Last Line: And we danced our round on the hill
Subject(s): Children; Daisies; Dancing And Dancers; Flowers


DAFFODIL AND DAISY, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deck'd in many gems of morn
Last Line: That one sweet pearl the daisy wore.
Subject(s): Daffodils; Daisies; Flowers


DAISES, by AMADO NERVO    Poem Source                    
First Line: On april nights, mild, soft and beautiful
Last Line: Love too they comprehend-they have been flowers!
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Love; Spring


DAISIES, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down on the hill on grandfather's farm
Last Line: You bring to me to-day.
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Memory; Youth


DAISIES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Peacemakers ye, the daisies, from the soil
Last Line: And lifting e'en the lowliest above.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers


DAISIES, by CARL H. P. THURSTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Golden daisies in the meadow
Last Line: "softly saying, ""come and play."
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Yale University


DAISIES, by YI HAYUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I love daisies blowing in the fields
Last Line: Like lonely daisies blowing and fading %in the fields
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers


DAISIES OF FLORENCE, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bambini picking daisies in the new spring grass
Last Line: Ripening the transient under her veil
Subject(s): Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510); Daisies; Florence, Italy; Flowers; Paintings And Painters


DAISIES STANDING IN THE RAIN, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Full Text                    
Last Line: And spoil their dainty faces
Subject(s): Daisies


DAISY, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dayseye hugging the earth
Last Line: Blades of limpid seashell.
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers


DAISY FIELD, by ELEANOR JANE OLMSTEAD    Poem Text                    
First Line: The yellow daisies glisten
Last Line: By the fall.
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers


DAISY: INNOCENCE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'd choose to be a daisy
Last Line: To welcome heaven's bright sunshine, %and heaven's bright tear-drops too
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers


DECIMA, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Silent daisies out of reach
Last Line: Sweetly manifest the god.
Subject(s): Patience; Daisies


EXTRACTS FROM AN OPERA: 2. DAISY'S SONG, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun, with his great eye
Last Line: Lambs bleat my lullaby.
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Spring


GREAT CAESAR! CONDESCEND, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: With your majestic leave!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 102; Poem: 14
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers


HER DIVINE SKILL TAUGHT ME THIS, by GEORGE WITHER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Than all nature's beauties can %in some wise man
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers


IN THE SHADE OF A METAPHOR, by PATRIZIA CAVALLI    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Metaphor; Daisies


JUNE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: June in the grass!
Last Line: Summer is here.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Daisies; Flowers; Grass; June; Summer; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


MICHAELMAS DAISIES, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis more than mid-october, yet along the
Last Line: Gives angels for the blossoms that old time has borne away.
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Summer


ON GAZING OVER A FIELD OF DAISIES, by KENNETH DEAROLF    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here I stand on the edge of the spring
Last Line: Still hold me in my heart.
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers


OX-EYED DAISIES, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O bonny things that ne'er have toiled not
Last Line: And breathings even of the infinite.
Subject(s): Beauty; Daisies; Flowers; Sun


PINK DAISIES, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: A couple av childer played out in a field
Last Line: Ay, an' trudged the lone boreen!—
Subject(s): Children; Daisies; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Grief; Memory; Solitude; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


ROBERT BURNS WILSON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What intuition named thee?
Last Line: Than any joy of all the glory there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Happiness; Soul; Joy; Delight


SECOND BOOK OF ODES: 2, by BASIL BUNTING    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three michaelmas daisies
Last Line: And the bees' [lay
Subject(s): Daisies


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 52, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where innocent bright-eyed daisies are
Last Line: Out of a sky of green.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): Daisies
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers


SO HAS A DAISY VANISHED, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Are ye with god?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 19; Poem: 2
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers


SONG, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The winds are scented with woods after rain
Last Line: And the raindrop shed from the daisy's eye.
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Rain; Smells; Wind; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances


SONG, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing but sweet music wakes
Last Line: My own beloved!
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Rain; Smells; Wind; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances


SONNET ON READING THE POEM UPON THE MOUNTAIN DAISY, BY BURNS, by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While soon the 'gardens' flaunting flowers' decay'
Last Line: His heaven-taught numbers fate herself will guard.
Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Daisies; Flowers; Poetry & Poets


STAR TRACKS, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Alone in bed at night I lie
Last Line: Shine out like stars upon the grass.
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Nature - Religious Aspects; Stars


THE DAISIES, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune
Last Line: "and all of their dancing was, ""life, thou art good!"
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers


THE DAISIES, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the scented bud of the morning o
Last Line: In the field where the daisies are.
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers


THE DAISY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I know not why thy beauty should
Last Line: Share my lost place with the wild green.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers


THE DAISY, by JOHN LEYDEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Star of the mead! Sweet daughter of the day
Last Line: To hail the daisy, flower of faithful love.
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers


THE DAISY, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The daisy blossoms on the rocks
Last Line: St stephen's constancy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Trees


THE DAISY, by JAMES RENNELL RODD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With little white leaves
Last Line: And I am the star of day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rennell, 1st Baron
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers


THE DAISY FOLLOWS SOFT THE SUN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Night's possibility!
Subject(s): Daisies; Sun; Love


THE DAISY TOLD A LIE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I asked a pretty maiden
Last Line: The daisy told a lie.
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Legends; Love - Unrequited


THE DAISY WHITE, by LUELLA DOWD SMITH    Poem Text                    
Last Line: To take us back to childhood's hour.
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers


THE DAISY'S MISTAKE, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A sunbeam and zephyr were playing about
Last Line: "I had now been safe in my native bower!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet
Subject(s): Beauty; Daisies; Flowers; Kisses


THE DAISY; WRITTEN AT EDINBURGH, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O love, what hours were thine and mine
Last Line: My fancy fled to the south again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Italy; Love; Monaco; Italians


THE FIELD DAISY, by JANE TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm a pretty little thing
Last Line: "surely winter's gone away."
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers


THE FORTUNE IN THE DAISY, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of what are you dreaming, my pretty maid
Last Line: A richer flower than daisies!
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers


THE OLD SONG, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let the dead go wed the dead
Last Line: God have mercy on all lovers!
Subject(s): Daisies; Death; Flowers; God; Love; Singing & Singers; Youth; Dead, The


THE SWEET-BRIAR, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sweet-briar flowering
Last Line: Held the trusting heart of a little child.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Daisies; Fields; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Perfume; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


TO A DAISY, by JOHN HARTLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ah! I'm feared thou's come too sooin
Last Line: Of some use if but to thee!
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers


TO A DAISY, by ALICE MEYNELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Slight as thou art, thou art enough to hide
Last Line: From god's side even of such a simple thing?
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers


TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wee, modest crimson-tipped flower
Last Line: Shall be thy doom!
Variant Title(s): A Mountain Daisy
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Plants; Plowing & Plowmen; Planting; Planters


TO DAISIES, by FRANCIS THOMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, drops of gold in whitening flame
Last Line: Bursting its cerement.
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers


TO DAISIES, NOT TO SHUT TOO SOON, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shut not so soon; the dull-eyed night
Last Line: Itself to live or die.
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers


TO THE DAISY (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In youth from rock to rock I went
Last Line: Art nature's favourite.
Variant Title(s): To The Daisy
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers


TO THE DAISY (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With little here to do or see
Last Line: Of thy meek nature!
Variant Title(s): To The Daisy
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers


TO THE DAISY (3), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bright flower! Whose home is everywhere
Last Line: In peace fulfilling.
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers


WAIFS, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Between the road and garden bed
Last Line: And bore it home triumphantly—ah, then, it knew at last!
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; September


WHEN DAISIES BLOOM, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yon field is white with daisies
Last Line: We will meet, my sweetheart, then.
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers


WHERE DO ALL THE DAISIES GO?, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: That is where they go!
Subject(s): Babies;birds;daisies;flowers;mothers;winter; Infants


WILD ASTERS, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the spring I asked the daisies
Last Line: Not one knows.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Asters; Daisies; Flowers