There is a garden in her face | There is a garden in her face

There is a garden in her face

Language: English

Our translations: DUT

There is a garden in her face,
  Where roses and white lilies grow;
A heav'nly paradise is that place,
  Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow.
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 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 with eye or hand
Those sacred cherries to come nigh
Till "Cherry ripe", themselves do cry.

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• J. Ireland • E. Moeran

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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]

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 18
Word count: 121