by Lancelot Andrewes (1555 - 1626)
Come, be my valentine!
Language: English
Come, be my valentine! I’ll gather eglantine, Cowslips and sops-in-wine, With fragrant roses. Down by thy Phillis sit, She will white lilies get, And daffadilies fit To make thee posies. I have a milk-white lamb, New-taken from the dam, It comes where’er I am When I call ‘Willy:’ I have a wanton kid Under my apron hid, A colt that ne’er was rid, A pretty filly. I bear in sign of love A sparrow in my glove, And in my breast a dove, This shall all be thine: Besides of sheep a flock, Which yieldeth many a lock, And this shall be thy stock: Come be my valentine!
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Confirmed with William Stanley Braithwaite, ed., The Book of Restoration Verse, 1910.
Text Authorship:
- by Lancelot Andrewes (1555 - 1626), "Phillis Inamorata" [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 John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Come, Be My Valentine", op. 504 (1958) [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Come, Be My Valentine", op. 504 (1958) [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2023-04-29
Line count: 24
Word count: 108