O mistress mine, where are you roaming?
O stay and hear, your true love's coming 
That can sing both high and low.

[Trip]1 no [further]2, pretty sweeting;
[Journeys]3 end in lovers' meeting,
Ev'ry wise man's son doth know.

What is love? 'Tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
What's to come is still unsure:

[In]4 delay there lies no plenty;
Then [come kiss]5 me, sweet and twenty;
Youth's a stuff will not endure.

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¹ Korngold: "O trip"
² [sic] ; and Hall: "farther"
³ Korngold: "For journeyes"
⁴ Korngold: "And in"
⁵ Korngold: "come and kiss"

Text Authorship:

• by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Twelfth Night: or, What You Will, Act II, Scene 3 [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 Bruce Adolphe (b. 1955), "O mistress mine", first performed 2001 [ soprano and piano ], from A Thousand Years of Love, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by David Werner Amram (b. 1930), "O mistress mine", published 1972 [ tenor and piano or orchestra ], from Five Shakespeare Songs, no. 2, New York, Peters [sung text checked 1 time]
• by (Howard) Orsmond Anderton (1861 - 1934), "Oh mistress mine where are you roaming?", published [1910?] [ tenor and piano ], from 3 Shakespeare Songs, London : Forsyth [sung text not yet checked]
• by Joseph W. Baber (b. 1937), "O mistress mine", op. 9 no. ? (1953-6) [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Shakespearean Madrigals, Set 3 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "O mistress mine", 2011 [ baritone and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (1868 - 1946), "O mistress mine", 1934 [ voice and piano ], from Six Shakespeare Songs, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir (1883 - 1953), "O mistress mine", 1916 [ voice and string quartet ], from Two Songs for Voice and String Quartet, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Garth Baxter (b. 1946), "O mistress mine" [ voice and guitar ], from Four Songs from Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867 - 1944), "O mistress mine", op. 37 (Three Shakespeare Songs) no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Winifred May Bury (1897 - 1977), "O mistress mine", 1938 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Mary Grant Carmichael (1851 - 1935), "O Mistress mine", published 1889 [ voice and piano ], from Four Songs, no. 3, London: J. & J. Hopkinson ; possibly published 1887 in Songs of the Stream [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895 - 1968), "O mistress mine", 1922, published 1924 [ high voice and piano ], from Shakespeare Songs, Book IV, no. 3, London : Chester [sung text not yet checked]
• by Theodore Ward Chanler (1902 - 1961), "O mistress mine", 1936, published c1962 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875 - 1912), "O mistress mine", published 1906 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Elizabeth Craven, Baroness (1750 - 1828), "O mistress mine", published 1790? [ vocal duet with continuo ], London : Preston & Son [sung text not yet checked]
• by Gordon Conrad Cyr (1925 - 2007), "O mistress mine", 1961-2, first performed 1963 [ high voice and chamber orchestra ], from Three Shakespeare Songs [sung text not yet checked]
• by (Henry) Walford Davies, Sir (1869 - 1941), "O mistress mine", op. 13 no. 1, published 1902 [ voice and piano ], from The Clown's Songs in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Emma Lou Diemer (b. 1927), "O mistress mine, where are you roaming", 1960, published 1962, first performed 1960 [ SATB chorus and piano ], from Three Madrigals, NY : Boosey [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ernest Bristow Farrar (1885 - 1918), "O mistress mine", op. 13, published 1921 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Gerald Finzi (1901 - 1956), "O mistress mine", op. 18 no. 4 (1942), from Let Us Garlands Bring, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Wolfgang Fortner (1907 - 1987), "O mistress mine", 1946, published 1947 [ voice and piano ], from Songs nach Texten von William Shakespeare mit Klavierbegleitung , no. 2, Mainz : Schott, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
• by John Linton Gardner (1917 - 2011), "O mistress mine", op. 66 no. 3, published 1964 [ women's chorus, piano duet, and optional percussion ], from A Shakespeare Sequence, no. 3, London : Oxford University Press [sung text not yet checked]
• by Steven R. Gerber (b. 1948), "Oh mistress mine", 1988 [ medium voice and piano ], from Six Songs of William Shakespeare, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882 - 1961), "O mistress mine", 1903, note: this is an arrangement of Morley's piece.  [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Juliana Hall (b. 1958), "O, mistress mine", 2015, first performed 2016 [ counter-tenor and piano ], from O Mistress Mine -- 12 Songs for countertenor and piano on texts from plays by William Shakespeare, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Lee Hoiby (1926 - 2011), "O mistress mine", 1955 [ voice and lute ], from Songs of the Fool, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford (1910 - 1998), "O mistress mine", 1986 [ voice and piano ], from Seven Shakespeare Songs, London : Lengnick [sung text not yet checked]
• by Mary (Carlisle) Howe (1882 - 1964), "O mistress mine" [sung text not yet checked]
• by John Jeffreys (1927 - 2010), "O mistress mine" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Sven Eric Emanuel Johanson (1919 - 1997), "O mistress mine", 1974, copyright © 1978 [ mixed chorus and piano ], from Fancies, no. 5, Stockholm : C. Gehrmans Musikförlag ; New York : Walton Music Corp. [sung text not yet checked]
• by Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897 - 1957), "O mistress mine", op. 29 no. 2, published 1937 [ voice and piano ], from Songs of the Clown, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Elizabeth Maconchy (1907 - 1994), "O mistress mine", c1926 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Thomas Morley (1557 - 1602), "O mistress mine" [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Herbert Henry John Murrill (1909 - 1952), "O mistress mine" [ chorus ], partsong [sung text not yet checked]
• by Alicia Adélaïda Needham (1863 - 1945), "O mistress mine", published 1898? [ voice and piano ], London : Novello, Ewer & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
• by Norman Houston O'Neill (1875 - 1934), "O mistress mine" [ voice and orchestra ], from Shakespeare Songs, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (1848 - 1918), "O mistress mine", 1874-1885, published 1886, from English Lyrics, Second Set, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Daniel Lee Pederson (flourished after 2000), "Sweet and Twenty", 2003 [ satb chorus a cappella ], confirmed with an online score [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Humphrey Procter-Gregg (1895 - 1980), "O mistress mine" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953), "O mistress mine", op. 6 no. 2 (1905), published 1905 [ voice and piano or orchestra ], from Three Shakespeare Songs (First Set), no. 2, Boosey [sung text checked 1 time]
• by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "O Mistress Mine", op. 81 (1945) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "O Mistress Mine", op. 282 (1950) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "O Mistress Mine", op. 330 (1951) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "O Mistress Mine", op. 372 (1952) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "O Mistress Mine", op. 515 (1958) [sung text not yet checked]
• by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "O Mistress Mine", op. 591 (1961) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Peter Sculthorpe (b. 1929), "O mistress mine" [ baritone voice with piano ], from Four Shakespeare songs, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Arthur Somervell, Sir (1863 - 1937), "O mistress mine", published 1927 [ voice and piano ], from Three New Old Songs, no. 3, confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (1852 - 1924), "O mistress mine", op. 65 no. 1 (1896), published 1897 [ voice and piano ], from The Clown's Songs from Twelfth Night, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Douglas Steele (1910 - 1999), "O mistress mine" [ voice and piano ], Manchester, Forsyth Publications ; two settings, each with the possessive apostrophe removed in line 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Arthur Sullivan, Sir (1842 - 1900), "O Mistress Mine", published 1866 [ voice and piano ], from 5 Shakespeare Songs, Metzler & Co. [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958), "O mistress mine", 1891, published 1913 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Richard Henry Walthew (1872 - 1951), "Mistress mine" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Peter Warlock (1894 - 1930), "Sweet-and-Twenty", 1924, published 1924 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by (James) Healey Willan (1880 - 1968), "O mistress mine" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Mabel Nightingale Woodward (1876 - 1911), "O mistress mine", published 1912 [ voice and piano ], from Songs, no. 13, Birmingham : Press of the Birmingham Printers [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

• Also set in English, a translation by Ida Goldschmidt, née Livingston (1863 - 1933) ; composed by Roger Quilter.
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• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767 - 1845) ; composed by Walter Braunfels, Wilhelm Petersen.
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• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Franz Hermann Schneider (1860 - 1930) ; composed by Oscar Weil.
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• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767 - 1845) , no title ; composed by Paul Angerer, Wolfgang Fortner, Adolf Reichel.
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• Also set in Norwegian (Bokmål), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Catharinus Elling.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Paavo Cajander)
• FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo)
• GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (David Paley) , "O Fräulein meins! Woher du wanderst", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• IRI Irish (Gaelic) [singable] (Gabriel Rosenstock) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ITA Italian (Italiano) (Paolo Montanari) , "O mia signora", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• POL Polish (Polski) (Józef Komierowski) , no title [an adaptation]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 74

Mun helttuni, miss' olet, hintu?
Oi, kuule, tääll' on lempilintu,
Joka laulaa liirettää.

Tule, tule, armas hempi,
Hämyn tulless' aikaa lempi,
Tyhmäkin sen älyää.

Mit' on lempi? Hetken ele.
Iloitse ja naureskele,
Huomist' älä mieti lain.

Viipy hedelmää ei kanna;
Tule, pusu mulle anna:
Nuoruus kestää hetken vain.