There is a garden in her face,
  Where roses and white lilies [grow]1;
A heav'nly paradise is that place,
  Wherein all pleasant fruits do [flow]2.
There cherries grow, which none may buy
Till "Cherry ripe", themselves do cry.

Those cherries fairly do enclose
  Of orient pearl a double row;
Which when her lovely laughter shows,
  They look like rosebuds filled with snow.
Yet them no peer nor prince [can]3 buy
Till "Cherry ripe", themselves do cry.

Her eyes like angels watch them still;
  Her brows like bended bows do stand,
Threat'ning with piercing frowns to kill
  All that [attempt]4 with eye or hand
[Those]5 sacred cherries to come nigh
Till "Cherry ripe", themselves do cry.

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¹ Moeran: "blow"
² Moeran: "grow"
³ Moeran: "may"
⁴ Ireland, Moeran: "approach"
⁵ Ireland, Moeran: "These"

Text Authorship:

• by Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620), "There is a garden in her face" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Richard Allison (flourished 1599-1606), "There is a garden in her face", published 1606, from An Howres Recreation in Musicke [sung text not yet checked]
• by Geoffrey Bush (1920 - 1998), "There is a garden in her face" [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620), "There is a garden in her face", published 1617, from The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres - The Fourth Booke, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Brian Holmes (b. 1946), "There is a garden in her face", from Six Ayres, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by John (Nicholson) Ireland (1879 - 1962), "There is a garden in her face", 1908 [ duet for soprano and alto with piano ], from Eight songs for upper voices and piano, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Ernest John Moeran (1894 - 1950), "Cherry ripe", R. 69 no. 1 (1934), published 1934 [ voice and piano ], from Four English Lyrics, no. 1, Winthrop Rogers [sung text checked 1 time]
• by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "There is a Garden in her Face", op. 404 (1953) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Virgil Garnett Thomson (1896 - 1989), "There is a garden in her face", from Four songs to poems of Thomas Campion, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Lidy van Noordenburg) , "Als een tuin is haar gelaat", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 18
Word count: 115