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 Graded Poetry: Third Year by Various

Sa-a-ay, girl, I'm a modest violet, I am, but I don't mind mentionin' that the general opinion up at the club is that I'm a little wizard with the cue.

From Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed by Ferber, Edna

Let us be like the modest violet, who hides her beauty, rather than be boastful and foolish, as the stag was.

From Story Lessons of Character Building (Morals) and Manners by Bates, Loïs

Then I left the poor pale lady to still her beating heart and kill her deadly apprehensions in the embroidery of the lily of the field and the modest violet.

From The First Violin A Novel by Fothergill, Jessie

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 Required Poems for Reading and Memorizing Third and Fourth Grades, Prescribed by State Courses of Study by Anonymous