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by Thomas Lodge (1558 - 1625)

Rosaline
 (Sung text for setting by C. Parry)
 See original
Language: English 
Like to the clear in highest sphere
  Where all imperial glory shines,
Of self-same colour is her hair
  Whether unfolded or in twines:
    Heigh ho, fair Rosaline.
Her eyes are sapphires set in snow,
  Refining heav'n by ev'ry wink;
The gods do fear whenas they glow,
  And I do tremble when I think:
    Heigh ho, would she were mine!

Her cheeks are like the blushing cloud
  That beautifies Aurora's face,
Or like the silver crimson shroud
  That Phoebus' smiling looks doth grace:
    Heigh ho, fair Rosaline!
Her lips are like two budded roses,
  Whom ranks of lilies neighbour nigh,
Within which bounds she balm encloses,
  Apt to entice a deity:
    Heigh ho, would she were mine!

 ... 

Then muse not, Nymphs, though I bemoan
  The absence of fair Rosaline,
Since for her fair there 's fairer none,
  Nor for her virtues so divine:
    Heigh ho, fair Rosaline:
Heigh ho, my heart! would God that she were mine!

Composition:

    Set to music by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (1848 - 1918), "Rosaline", published 1920, stanzas 1-2,5, from English Lyrics, Twelfth Set, no. 3

Text Authorship:

  • by Thomas Lodge (1558 - 1625), "Rosaline"

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

  • GER German (Deutsch) (Richard Flatter) , "Rosalinde", appears in Die Fähre, Englische Lyrik aus fünf Jahrhunderten, first published 1936


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 46
Word count: 282

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