This Book of Hours Love wrought 
With burnished letters gold, 
Each page with art and thought 
And colours manifold. 

His calendar he taught 
To youths and virgins cold --
This Book of Hours Love wrought 
With [letters burnished gold]1. 

[Love's]2 priceless book is bought
With sighs and tears untold 
Of votaries who sought
His countenance of old -- 
This Book of Hours Love wrought 
With [letters burnished gold]1.

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¹ Griffes: "With burnished letters gold"
² Griffes: "This"

Text Authorship:

• by Walter Crane (1845 - 1915), "Rondel", appears in Renascence: a book of verse, first published 1891 [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 Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884 - 1920), "This book of hours", op. 4 no. 1 (<<1914), published 1915 [soprano and piano], from Two Rondels for a Soprano Voice, no. 1. [
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This text was added to the website: 2009-08-23
Line count: 14
Word count: 66