- Full Text
- The rosey red, The violet blue, Sugar is sweet my dear and so are you
- Listed on Page Number
- 257
- Sampler Worked By
- Mary Snively
- Date of Sampler
- 1814
- Place Sampler Made
- Cumberland County, PA
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 224
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- Original: Sir Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, 1590 (Book 3, Canto 6, Stanza 6). Later, made famous by Gammer Gurton's Garland, Collection of English Nursey Rhymes, 1784.
- Notes
- Mary Snively was 13 years old when she stitched her sampler. More familiar verse:
Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
Sugar is sweet.
And so are you.