by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)

Language: English 
Sapho, 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.

Composition:

    Set to music 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

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This text was added to the website: 2013-02-13
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