Did the wee flowers know what sadness Lay hid in my wounded heart, They would shed soft tears till weeping Made sorrow depart. Did the nightingales know it, darling, This sorrow endured so long, They would sing full-throated to comfort A suffering heart with song. The bright stars, did they know it, In pity of my woe Would fall from their places in heaven And shine in my breast below. They none of them know it, darling: The wound, and the heartache, and woe; The hand that stabbed, and the weapon, One only can know.
Album of ten songs
Song Cycle by Richard Harvey Loehr (1856 - 1927)
1. Did the wee flowers know [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Text Authorship:
- by Ernest Radford (1857 - 1919), "Und wüßten's die Blumen, die kleinen", appears in Old and New. A Collection of Poems by Ernest Radford, London: T. Fisher Unwin, page 156, first published 1895
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Lyrisches Intermezzo, no. 22
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