Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower, But I could never sell -- If you would like to borrow, Until the Daffodil Unties her yellow Bonnet Beneath the village door, Until the Bees, from Clover rows Their Hock, and Sherry, draw, Why, I will lend until just then, But not an hour more!
Three Flower Songs
Song Cycle by James Fitzwilliam (b. 1963)
1. Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems of Emily Dickinson, first published 1890
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- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
2. I hide myself within my flower [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
I hide myself within my flower, That wearing on your breast, You, unsuspecting, wear me too -- And angels know the rest.
Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title
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- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
I hide myself within my flower, That, fading from your vase, You, unsuspecting, feel for me Almost a loneliness.
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3. So has a Daisy vanished [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
So has a Daisy vanished From the fields today -- So tiptoed many a slipper To Paradise away -- Oozed so in crimson bubbles Day's departing tide -- Blooming -- tripping -- flowing Are ye then with God?
Text Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title
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