Read the Junior Classics
Buttercup
Grade 7
Poem
by Jean Ingelow
Volume: 10 | Page: 279
Estimated reading time: 1 minute
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Reading ModeO the buttercups ! that field
O' the cloth of gold, where pennons swam,
Where France set up his lilied shield,
His oriflamb,
TO GENERAL CROMWELL
And Henry's lion-standard rolled ;
What was it to their matchless sheen,
Their million million drops of gold Among the green!