This Book of Hours Love wrought With burnished letters gold, Each page with art and thought And colours manifold. His calendar he taught To youths and virgins cold -- This Book of Hours Love wrought With [letters burnished gold]1. [Love's]2 priceless book is bought With sighs and tears untold Of votaries who sought His countenance of old -- This Book of Hours Love wrought With [letters burnished gold]1.
Two Rondels for a Soprano Voice
Song Cycle by Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884 - 1920)
1. This book of hours [sung text checked 1 time]
Authorship:
- by Walter Crane (1845 - 1915), "Rondel", appears in Renascence: a book of verse, first published 1891 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
1 Griffes: "With burnished letters gold"
2 Griffes: "This"
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
2. Come, love, across the sunlit land [sung text checked 1 time]
Come, Love, across the sunlit land, As blithe as dryad dancing free, While time slips by like silvery sand Within the glass of memory. Ere Winter, in his reckless glee Blights all the bloom with ruthless hand, Come, Love, across the sunlit land As blithe as dryad dancing free. And all the years of life shall be Like peaceful vales that wide expand To meet a bright, untroubled sea By radiant azure arches spanned Come, Love, across the sunlit land As blithe as dryad dancing free.
Authorship:
- by Clinton Scollard (1860 - 1932), "Come, Love, across the sunlit land", subtitle: "Rondel", appears in Ballades and Rondeaus, Chants Royal, Sestinas, Villanelles, etc., first published 1887 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Total word count: 152