Beautiful messengers, fragrant and fair
Language: English
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Beautiful messengers, fragrant and fair, Greeting the morning all guiltless of care, Ready to grace your dark tresses of hair: Such I commend to you. Roses I send to you: Blushingly conscious, each bud how demure! Sad that their beauties so briefly endure! Yet ere they fade may they carry secure, All I intend to you.
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Text Authorship:
- by George Winkler , "Roses I send to you" [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 Laura Farnell (b. 1975), "Roses I Give to You", copyright © 2025 [ ttb chorus and piano and violoncello ad libitum ], Santa Barbara Music Publishing
Publisher: Santa Barbara Music Publishing [external link] [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2026-08-29
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Word count: 56