To 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.

[1] 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.

The final stanza is in some ways reminiscent of Andrew Marvell's poem To His Coy Mistress: But at my back I always hear Time's wingèd chariot drawing near;