by Elizabeth Melville (c1578 - c1640)
O lilie fair O rubie rose, O rose
Language: English
O lilie fair O rubie rose, O rose That spreids so faire in Sharon feild O flowre of flowres thow art my choise, my choise Thy savour sweet doth comfort yeeld O fertile tree whose fruit is fair Whose branches bow most fresche and fair Whose apples hings in store Beneath one branch in shade so sweet I long to rest my wearie spirit The sun has scoarched me sore O let me lay beneath that tree The smell so sweet doth quicken me.
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Confirmed with, Loves Lament for Christs Absence, in: Poems of Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross, ed. Jamie Reid Baxter, Solsequium, Edinburgh, 2010
Text Authorship:
- by Elizabeth Melville (c1578 - c1640), no title, appears in Loves Lament for Christs Absence [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 Sheena Phillips (b. 1958), "O lilie fair", copyright © 2018 [ soprano and theorbo ]
Score: Sheena Phillips [external link] [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2026-07-03
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