A Primrose Dame by Gleeson White. Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. 1895. A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895

Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.

A Primrose Dame

Gleeson White (b. 185–)


SHE has a primrose at her breast,
I almost wish I were a Tory.
I like the Radicals the best;
She has a primrose at her breast;
Now is it chance she so is drest,	5
Or must I tell a story?
She has a primrose at her breast,
I almost wish I were a Tory.