by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
Roses blushing red and white
Language: English
Roses blushing red and white, For delight; Honeysuckle wreaths above, For love: Dim sweet-scented heliotrope, For hope: Shining lilies tall and straight, For royal state; Dusky pansies, let them be For mernory; With violets of fragrant breath, For death.
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Text Authorship:
- by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), no title, appears in Sing-song: a nursery rhyme book, first published 1872 [author's text not yet checked 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 John (Nicholson) Ireland (1879 - 1962), "The Garland", 1918, published 1919 [ medium voice, piano ], from Mother and Child, no. 8 [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Ted Perry
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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