by Frank Dempster Sherman (1860 - 1916)
Song like a rose should be
Language: English
Song like a rose should be; Each rhyme a petal sweet; For fragrance, melody, That when her lips repeat The words, her heart may know What secret makes them so: -- Love, only Love! Go, then, my song -- a rose Fashioned of love and rhyme; Unto her heart disclose That secret old as time, -- Old, yet forever new! Go, then, and tell her true -- Love, only Love!
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Confirmed with Frank Dempster Sherman, Lyrics for a Lute, fourth edition, Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1895. Appears in Love, page 73.
Text Authorship:
- by Frank Dempster Sherman (1860 - 1916), "Song" [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 Arthur Foote (1853 - 1937), "Song Like a Rose Should Be", op. 72 (Five Songs) no. 3 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Helen Dellenbauch Tretbar (1835 - 1902) ; composed by Victor Harris.
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