“Looking for Poppies”
Description
An old man meets a girl and asks where she is going. She says she is looking for poppies; he says it's the wrong place. She would hear the nightingale; the time is wrong. At last her young man shows up; the old man warns against such bird songs
References
- Belden, pp. 252-253, "Looking for Poppies" (1 text)
- Roud #7759
- BI, Beld252