by Charles Alexander Richmond (1862 - 1940)
Oh, red is the English rose
Language: English
O, red is the English rose, And the lilies of France are pale, And the poppies grow in the golden wheat, For the men whose eyes are heavy with sleep, Where the ground is red as the English rose, And the lips as the lilies of France are pale, And the ebbing pulses beat fainter and fainter and fail. Oh, red is the English rose, And the lilies of France are pale. And the poppies lie in the level corn For the men who sleep and never return. But wherever they lie an English rose So red, and lily of France so pale, Will grow for a love that never and never can fail.
Authorship:
- by Charles Alexander Richmond (1862 - 1940) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Arthur Foote (1853 - 1937), "Oh, red is the English rose", op. 79 (Three Songs) no. 3, copyright © 1919 [ voice and piano ], Boston, Schmidt [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Cecil Forsyth (1870 - 1941), "Oh, red is the English rose", published 1917 [ voice and piano ], Ditson, Boston [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2017-12-22
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