by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
Choose me your valentine
Language: English
Choose me your valentine, Next let us marry -- Love to the death will pine If we long tarry. Promise, and keep your vows, Or vow ye never -- Love's doctrine disallows Troth-breakers ever. You have broke promise twice, Dear, to undo me, If you prove faithless thrice None then will woo ye.
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Text Authorship:
- by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), "To his mistress" [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 Herbert Boot (flourished c1930), "Choose me your Valentine", 1930 [ voice and piano ], confirmed with a concert programme booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949), "Choose me your valentine", op. 10 (Fourteen songs) no. 9 (1912) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-01-30
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Word count: 51