Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower | Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower

Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower

Language: English

Our translations: FRE

Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower,
But I could never sell --
If you would like to borrow,
Until the Daffodil

Unties her yellow Bonnet
Beneath the village door,
Until the Bees, from Clover rows
Their Hock, and Sherry, draw,

Why, I will lend until just then,
But not an hour more!

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Text Authorship:

by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems of Emily Dickinson, first published 1890 [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 James Fitzwilliam (b. 1963), "Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower", 2002, from Three Flower Songs, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Adolphus Cunningham Hailstork (b. 1941), "Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower", 2004 [ voice and piano ], from Summer. Life. Song. -- 1. Summer Songs, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
by Juliana Hall (b. 1958), "Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower ", 2010 [ soprano and piano ], from Upon this Summer's Day -- 8 songs for Soprano and Piano, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
by George Perle (1915 - 2009), "Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower", 1977 [ voice and piano ], from Thirteen Dickinson Songs, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Gitta Steiner (1932 - 1990), "Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower", published 1971 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Five Poems for Mixed Chorus [sung text not yet checked]

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Researcher for this page: Guy Laffaille [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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