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English Lyrics, Twelfth Set
by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (1848 - 1918)
1. When the dew is falling
2. To blossoms  [sung text not yet checked]
Fair pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do ye fall so fast? Your date is not so past But you may stay [yet here]1 awhile To blush and gently smile, And go at last. What! were ye born to be An hour or half's delight, And so to bid good night? 'Twas pity Nature brought [you]2 forth Merely to show your worth And lose you quite. But you are lovely leaves, where we May read how soon things have Their end, though ne'er so brave: And after they have shown their pride Like you awhile, they glide Into the grave.
Authorship:
- by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), "To blossoms"
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Foote: "here yet"
2 Foote, Willan: "ye"
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3. Rosaline  [sung text checked 1 time]
Like to the clear in highest sphere Where all imperial glory shines, Of self-same colour is her hair Whether unfolded or in twines: Heigh ho, fair Rosaline. Her eyes are sapphires set in snow, [Resembling]1 heav'n by ev'ry wink; The gods do fear whenas they glow, And I do tremble when I think: Heigh ho, would she were mine! Her cheeks are like the blushing cloud That beautifies Aurora's face, Or like the silver crimson shroud That Phoebus' smiling looks doth grace: Heigh ho, fair Rosaline! Her lips are like two budded roses, Whom ranks of lilies neighbour nigh, Within [whose]2 bounds she balm encloses, Apt to entice a deity: Heigh ho, would she were mine! Then muse not, Nymphs, though I bemoan The absence of fair Rosaline, Since for [a]4 fair there 's fairer none, Nor for her virtues so divine: Heigh ho, fair Rosaline: Heigh ho, my heart! would God that she were mine!
Authorship:
- by Thomas Lodge (1558 - 1625), "Rosaline"
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Richard Flatter) , "Rosalinde", appears in Die Fähre, Englische Lyrik aus fünf Jahrhunderten, first published 1936
1 Moeran, Parry: "Refining"
2 Moeran, Parry: "which"
3 Moeran: "in"
4 Moeran, Parry: "her"
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4. Resurrection
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5. Dream‑Pedlary  [sung text checked 1 time]
If there were dreams to sell, What would you buy? Some cost a passing bell; Some a light sigh, That shakes from Life's fresh crown Only a rose-leaf down. If there were dreams to sell, Merry and sad to tell, And the crier rang the bell, What would you buy? A cottage lone and still, With bowers nigh, Shadowy, my woes to still, Until I die. Such pearl from Life's fresh crown Fain would I shake me down. Were dreams to have at will, This best would heal my ill, This would I buy.
Authorship:
- by Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803 - 1849), "Dream-Pedlary", appears in The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, first published 1851
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Researcher for this page: Ted Perry6. A lament  [sung text not yet checked]
O World! O Life! O Time! On whose last steps I climb, Trembling at that where I had stood before; When will return the glory of your prime? No more - oh, never more! Out of the day and night A joy has taken flight: Fresh spring, and summer, and winter hoar Move my faint heart with grief, but with delight No more - oh, never more!
Authorship:
- by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822), "A lament", first published 1824
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Nářek"
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "O Mondo! O Vita! O Tempo!", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- RUS Russian (Русский) (Konstantin Dmitrevich Bal'mont) , "Вопль", written 1893
7. The sound of hidden music
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