Just when we were admiring a luscious colony of golden kingcup in a roadside hollow a solitary heron went by, slowly flapping its wings. From Wordnik.com. [Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
"May flowers" were put at the doors of houses and cattle-sheds, and these were not hawthorn blossoms, but the flowers of the kingcup, or marsh marigold. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellanea] Reference
By kingcup and daffodilly. From Wordnik.com. [Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I.] Reference
"What but a kingcup?" said Martin. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard] Reference
The kingcup swings his golden bell. From Wordnik.com. [Songs of Childhood] Reference
Is the kingcup crowned in the meadow?. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation] Reference
Than daisie, marygold, or kingcup rare. From Wordnik.com. [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook] Reference
Are golden kingcup-fields with silver edge. From Wordnik.com. [Silent Noon] Reference
Within the kingcup if thy limbs are spread. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2] Reference
And slender kingcup, burnished with the dew. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Chiefly from Manuscript] Reference
Through buttercup and kingcup bright as brass. From Wordnik.com. [Last Poems] Reference
Lo, here the kingcup of a golden hue. From Wordnik.com. [The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical] Reference
Yes! the same golden peace that lies like a charm across every page of his greatest poem lay across that sun-steeped, fertile plain, with its walls of cypress trees, its lines of poplars, its delicate, tapestry-like designs of almond trees in blossom, on a sombre background of formal olive orchards, its green meadows, lit up with singing water-courses, or gleaming irrigation canals, starred here and there with the awakening kingcup, or sweet with the returning violet -- here and there a farmhouse ( "mas," as they call them in Provence) snugly sheltered from the mistral by their screens of foliage -- and far aloft in the distance, floating like a silver dream, the snow-white shoulder of. From Wordnik.com. [Vanishing Roads and Other Essays] Reference
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