by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
Sappho, I will choose to go
Language: English
Sappho, I will choose to go Where the northern winds do blow Endless ice and endless snow: Rather than I once would see But a winter's face in thee, To benumb my hopes and me.
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- by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), "To Sappho", appears in The Hesperides [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 Mary Grant Carmichael (1851 - 1935), "To Sapho", published 1889 [ voice and piano ], from Four Songs, no. 2, London: J. & J. Hopkinson ; possibly published 1887 in Songs of the Stream [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949), "To Sapho", op. 23 (Twenty-one songs) no. 20 (1916) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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