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"Ring a Ring o' Roses", also known as "Ring a Ring o' Rosie" or (in the United States) "Ring Around the Rosie", is a nursery rhyme, folk song, and playground game. Descriptions first appeared in the mid-19th century, though it is reported to date from decades earlier. Similar rhymes are known across Europe, with varying lyrics.
Ring-a-Ring o' Roses 'Ring Around the Rosie' United Kingdom 1881 [85] Origin unknown, there is no evidence linking it to the Great Plague or earlier outbreaks of bubonic plague in England. Roses Are Red: Great Britain 1784 [86] A rhyme similar to the modern standard version can be found in Gammer Gurton's Garland. Row, Row, Row Your Boat ...
Visual artist Roni Horn, in th rose prblm (2017), [9] refers to the subject. Abstract artist, Shane Guffogg, created a series partly inspired by this phrase titled, A Rose is a Rose is a Rose, in 2019 using oils on canvas. In the 1977 episode of M*A*S*H, "Margaret's Marriage", Hawkeye says "An affair is an affair is an affair."
The rose always was, and is, and will be forever on the "Rood of Time. The poem is settled in the rose, to the point that the poem’s tone is one of sweet, suffering melancholy, a tone that is reaching for the sublime. In the 1890s, says Stephen Coote, Yeats was concerned for the "spiritual regeneration of his people": he felt that a spiritual ...
A ring–a ring of roses, Laps full of posies; Awake–awake! Now come and make A ring–a ring of roses. The book's also on Project Gutenberg. Would it be reasonable to mention this in the section on early attestation, or is it excluded as original research? N p holmes 13:57, 13 January 2008 (UTC) No problem.
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"Roses Are Red" is a love poem and children's rhyme with Roud Folk Song Index number 19798. [1] It has become a cliché for Valentine's Day , and has spawned multiple humorous and parodic variants. A modern standard version is: [ 2 ]
The Kilmarnock poet John Ramsay dedicated his 1844 collection Woodnotes of a Wanderer to Rose. [7] Most of Rose's verse was published in newspapers, though two poems, The Coronation (1838) and The Bazaar (1839) were published separately. [1] Rose died in police custody on 19 June 1849, imprisoned after a drinking spree. He was 43 years old.