by Walter Crane (1845 - 1915)
This Book of Hours Love wrought
Language: English
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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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View text without footnotes1 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 [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-08-23
Line count: 14
Word count: 71