by Thomas Ashe (1836 - 1889)
If I could choose
Language: English
If I could choose my paradise, And please myself with choice of bliss, The I would have your soft blue eyes And rosy little mouth to kiss! Your lips, as smooth and tender, child, As rose leaves in a coppice wild. If fate bade choose some sweet unrest, To weave my troubled life a snare, Then I would say "Her maiden breast, And golden ripple of her hair;" And weep amid those tresses, child, Contented to be thus beguiled.
Authorship:
- by Thomas Ashe (1836 - 1889) [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 Frank Bridge (1879 - 1941), "If I could choose", 1902 [ voice and piano ], from Two Songs [1902], no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Ted Perry
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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