... glad that the night was not longer, and resolved to take advantage of the early morning to fulfil a commission of Lady Oglethorpe, whose elder children, Lewis and Theophilus, had the whooping-cough. Mouse-ear, namely, the little sulphur-coloured hawk-weed, was, and still is, accounted a specific, and Anne had been requested to bring a supply—a thing easily done, since it grew plentifully in the court of ... — A Reputed Changeling • Charlotte M. Yonge
... that mirrored clear the sky— Full well I know the spot; The mouse-ear looked with bright blue eye, And said "Forget-me-not." And from the brook I turned away, But heard it many ... — Life and Remains of John Clare - "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" • J. L. Cherry