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Four Love Songs
Song Cycle by (Gerald) Graham Peel (1878 - 1937)
1. O like the Queen's happy tread
Language: English
2. All in garden green  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
I talked one midnight with the jolly ghost Of a gray ancestor, Tom Heywood hight; And, "Here's," says he, his old heart liquor-lifted -- "Here's how we did when Gloriana shone:" All in a garden green Thrushes were singing; Red rose and white between, Lilies were springing; It was the merry May; Yet sang my Lady: -- "Nay, Sweet, now nay, now nay! I am not ready." Then to a pleasant shade I did invite her: All things a concert made, For to delight her; Under, the grass was gay; Yet sang my Lady: -- "Nay, Sweet, now nay, now nay! I am not ready."
Authorship:
- by William Ernest Henley (1849 - 1903), no title, appears in Hawthorn and Lavender with Other Verses, in Hawthorn and Lavender, no. 13, first published 1901
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Language: English
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4. Jenny kissed me  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your [list]1, put that in: Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me, Say I'm growing old, but add Jenny kissed me.
Authorship:
- by (James Henry) Leigh Hunt (1784 - 1859), "Rondeau"
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Wilkinson: "book"
Confirmed with Merlyn. Jaargang 2, Polak & Van Gennep, Amsterdam 1963-1964, page 3
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
Total word count: 152