The poets abound in allusions to the daisy. It serves both for a moral and for an epithet. The morality is adduced more by our later poets, who have written whole poems in its honor. The earlier poets content themselves generally with the daisy in description, and leave the daisy in ethics to such a philosophico-poetical Titan as Wordsworth. Douglas (1471), in his description of the month of May, writes:
"The dasy did on crede (unbraid) hir crownet smale."
And Lyndesay (1496), in the prologue to his "Dreme," describes June
"Weill bordowrit with dasyis of delyte."
The eccentric Skelton, who wrote about the close of the 15th century, in a sonnet, says:
"Your colowre
Is lyke the daisy flowre
After the April showre."
Thomas Westwood, in an agreeable little madrigal, pictures the daisies:
"All their white and pinky faces