Then each farmer, brisk and mellow, Graspeth by the hand his fellow; And, as one gone labour-proof, Shakes his head at the drowned shadoof Soon the nuphar comes, beguiling Sedgy spears, and swords around, Like that cradled infant smiling, Whom, the royal maiden found.
"Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse"
Richard Doddridge Blackmore
nuphar luteum, yellow water-lily.
"The Antiquity of Man"
Charles Lyell
Clote, the yellow water-lily; nuphar lutea.
"Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect"
William Barnes