modest violet

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Down in a green and shady bed   A modest violet grew, Its stalk was bent, it hung its head,   As if to hide from view.

From Types of Children's Literature by Barnes, Walter

You graceless wretch, you aren't usually so like ye modest violet!

From T. Haviland Hicks Senior by Elderdice, J. Raymond

The Violet Down in a green and shady bed A modest violet grew; Its stalk was bent, it hung its head, As if to hide from view.

From The Posy Ring A Book of Verse for Children by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith

Down in a green and shady bed A modest violet grew, Its stalk was bent, it hung its head, As if to hide from view.

From Graded Poetry: Third Year by Various

The r�le of the modest violet was not to be mine, I could see from the outset....

From Geraldine Farrar The Story of an American Singer by Farrar, Geraldine