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The royal kingcup bold Dares not don his coat of gold. - Sir Edwin Arnold, Almond Blossoms He likes the poor things of the world the best, I would not, therefore, if I could be rich. It pleases him t stoop for buttercups. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (bk. IV) All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower. - Robert Browning, Home Thoughts--From Abroad The buttercups, bright-eyed and bold, Held up their chalices of gold To catch the sunshine and the dew. - Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr, Centennial Poem (l. 165) Fair is the kingcup that in meadow blows, Fair is the daisy that beside her grows. - John Gay, Shepherd's Week--Monday (l. 43) Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod. - Jean Ingelow, Reflections And O the buttercups! that field O' the cloth of gold, when pennons swam-- Where France set up his lilied shield, His oriflamb, And Henry's lion-standard rolled: What was it to their matchless sheen, Their million million drops of gold Among the green! - Jean Ingelow, The Letter L Present (st. 3) The buttercups across the field Made sunshine rifts of splendor. - Dinah Maria Mulock (used pseudonym Mrs. Craik), A Silly Song When buttercups are blossoming, The poets sand, 'tis best to wed: So all for love we paired in Spring-- Blanche and I--ere youth had sped. - Edmund Clarence Stedman, Bohemia
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