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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 
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Text Authorship:

  • by William Watson, Sir (1858 - 1935)

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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."

Text 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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3. Her loveliness

Language: English 
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Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

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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.

Text Authorship:

  • by (James Henry) Leigh Hunt (1784 - 1859), "Rondeau"

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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: 154
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