by Julian Gade
My Message
Language: English
I sent you red roses, and I know My heart went with them when I saw them go, They carried in their petals love for you, And yet who sent the flow'rs, you never knew! Perchance you did not care, and they are dead, Their message, and their meaning both have fled; And though my soul went in their leaves to you, You never thought, dear heart, you never knew!
Text Authorship:
- by Julian Gade , copyright status unknown [author's text not yet checked 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 Helen Rhodes (1858 - 1936), as Guy d'Hardelot, "My Message", published 1911 [ voice and piano ], Melbourne : Chappell [sung text checked 1 time]
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