What makes a garden? Flowers, grass and trees, Odor, grace and color, lovely gifts like these.
Garden songs
Song Cycle by Nicolas Slonimsky (1894 - 1995)
1. What makes a garden? [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Text Authorship:
- by Caroline Giltinan (1884 - 1961), no title
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Confirmed with Caroline Giltinan, Garden Thoughts, in: Floral Specialities, South Sudbury, Mass : Cosmos Gardens
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2. Columbines [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
SIng a song of columbines (Doves within a nest), Fairer nosegay no lad twines For his Chloe's breast— Purple all for lover's pain, White for loyalty, Take your roses, bring again Columbines for me. Sing a song of columbines, White and purple-stoled, Ere the bloom is on the bines, When the nights are cold— They will watch the roses out, (Rose though Chloe be— What care I if Chloe flout?) Columbines for me.
Text Authorship:
- by Eleanor Jane Hopper (1871 - 1906), as Nora Chesson, "Columbines", appears in Under Quicken Boughs
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Confirmed with Nora Chesson, Under Quicken Boughs, London : John Lane, 1896, p.122
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3. French blue [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
There's a blue flower grows in France A tattered roadside thing, Like flowers cut, by little girls, Of paper while they sing, Which when I see so far from home I feel tears almost rise, For it is blue with just the blue Of one dear lady's eyes.
Text Authorship:
- by William Alexander Percy (1885 - 1942), "French Blue"
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Confirmed with William Alexander Percy, The Collected Poems of William Alexander Percy, New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1944
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Total word count: 137