The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 - A Typographic Art Journal by Various
page 86 of 130 (66%)
page 86 of 130 (66%)
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No daisy makes comparison."
Spenser, in his "Prothalamion," alludes to "The little dazie that at evening closes." George Wither speaks of the power of his imagination: "By a daisy, whose leaves spread Shut when Titan goes to bed; Or a shady bush or tree, She could more infuse in me Than all Nature's beauties can In some other wiser man." Poor Chatterton, in his "Tragedy of Ella," refers to the daisy in the line: "In daiseyed mantells is the mountayne dyghte." Hervey, in his "May," describes "The daisy singing in the grass As thro' the cloud the star." And Hood, in his fanciful "Midsummer Fairies," sings of "Daisy stars whose firmament is green." Burns, whose "Ode to a Mountain Daisy" is so universally admired, |
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