Roses blushing red and white (Rossetti, set by (John Ireland)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

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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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]

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by John (Nicholson) Ireland (1879 - 1962), "The Garland", 1918, published 1919 [medium voice, piano], from Mother and Child, no. 8. [
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Researcher for this text: Ted Perry

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 39