“Stern Ruin's plowshare drives elate,
Full on thy bloom.”
Robert Burns To a Mountain Daisy
To a Mountain Daisy, st. 9 (1786)
Quotes from workTo a Mountain Daisy
"To a Mountain Daisy", On Turning one Down, With The Plough, in April 1786 is a Scots poem written by Robert Burns in 1786. It was included in the Kilmarnock volume of Burns's poems, published in that year.The poem tells of how the poet, while out with the plough, discovers that he has crushed a daisy's stem. It is similar in some respects to his poem To a Mouse, published in the previous year. In ploughing a field in the early morning, there must have been hundreds of small flowers that were turned down by the plough and why Burns was taken with this particular specimen is a mystery.
