I saw fair Cloris walk alone (Strode, set by (Gerald Busby, Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, Walter Porter)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

I saw fair Cloris walk alone

Language: English

I saw fair Cloris walk alone,
Whilst feathered rain came softly down,
And Jove descended from his tower
To court her in a silver shower.
The wanton snow fell on her breast
Like little birds unto their nest;
But overcome with whiteness there,
For grief it thawed into a tear;
Thence falling on her garment's hem,
To deck her, froze into a gem.

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Authorship

by William Strode (1600? - 1645), from Parnassus Biceps, first published 1656 [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 Gerald Busby (b. 1935), "Chloris in the snow" [SATB chorus a cappella] [
text not verified
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by Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889 - 1960), "Chloris in the snow", op. 116 no. 1 (1948), published 1949 [voice and piano], from Two Old English Lyrics, no. 1. [
text verified 1 time
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by Walter Porter (1587 - 1659), "I saw fair Cloris walk alone", 1632. [
text not verified
]

Researcher for this text: John Versmoren

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 10
Word count: 63