by Charles Hanson Towne (1877 - 1949)
Pomegranate is your mouth
Language: English
Pomegranate is your mouth And honey are your lips; I plunder from the golden store – A bee that sips and sips. O Lily of delight, O Jasmine-flower, you hold The hoarded sweet of all the world, And all Love’s fabled gold.
Text Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Amy Woodforde-Finden (1860 - 1919), "Pomegranate is your mouth", published 1910 [ high voice and piano ], from A Dream of Egypt, no. 3, London : Boosey & Co. [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2024-01-07
Line count: 8
Word count: 42