by William Ernest Henley (1849 - 1903)
It was a bowl of roses
Language: English
It was a bowl of roses: There in the light they lay, Languishing, glorying, glowing Their life away. And the soul of them rose like a presence, Into me crept and grew, And filled me with something -- some one -- O, was it you?
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Text Authorship:
- by William Ernest Henley (1849 - 1903), no title, appears in Hawthorn and Lavender with Other Verses, in Hawthorn and Lavender, no. 27, first published 1901 [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 Robert Coningsby Clarke (1879 - 1934), "A bowl of roses", published <<1934 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Francis George Scott (1880 - 1958), "A bowl of roses", 1914 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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