Wishing (I Wish I Were a Primrose)

DESCRIPTION: "Ring-Ting! I wish I were a Primrose, A bright yellow Primrose, blowing in the spring! The stooping boughs above me, The wandering bee to love me... And the Elm tree for our king!" The poet then wishes to be an elm, or a robin, and for mother's kiss
AUTHOR: William Allingham (1824-1889) (source: Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood)
EARLIEST DATE: 1983 (Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood)
KEYWORDS: flowers royalty mother bird | elm tree primrose
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, pp. 146-147, "Ring tine, I wish I were a primrose" (1 fragment)
Roud #25397
File: KSUC146D

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