- Full Text
- Little Bud of opening red Where the blooming Graces dwell, Nodding o'er thy dewy bed, In thy verdant mossy cell.
With lovers hand should some fond youth To Delia's breast thy beauties bear. Go and learn this sacred truth, that greater beauties flourish there.
- Listed on Page Number
- 256
- Sampler Worked By
- the sampler associated with this verse is not listed in B&C
- Date of Sampler
- 1790
- Place Sampler Made
- n.p.
- Sampler Listed on Page
- Unlisted in B&C
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- Author Unknown. “The Moss Rose Bud” published in ‘The Freemason’s Magazine’. (publisher J.W. Bunney, London), September 1793. p.350.
- Notes
- The poem is published without attribution in The Freemason’s Magazine in 1793. There is a discrepancy of date bc the verse is listed as being from a sampler dated 1790, suggesting that the poem was first written earlier than 1793.