by Ernest Christopher Dowson (1867 - 1900)
THE LADY, questioning him from a little...
Language: English
THE LADY, questioning him from a little book bound deliciously in vellum: What is Love? Is it a folly, Is it mirth, or melancholy? Joys above, Are there many, or not any? What is love? PIERROT, answering in a very humble attitude of scholarship: If you please, A most sweet folly! Full of mirth and melancholy; Both of these! In its sadness worth all gladness, If you please! THE LADY: Prithee where, Goes Love a-hiding? Is he long in his abiding Anywhere? Can you bind him when you find him; Prithee, where? PIERROT With spring days Love comes and dallies: Upon the mountains, through the valleys Lie Love's ways. Then he leaves you and deceives you In spring days.
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- by Ernest Christopher Dowson (1867 - 1900), no title, appears in The Pierrot of the Minute, first published 1897 [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 Cyril Meir Scott (1879 - 1970), "Pierrot and the Moon Maiden", published 1912 [ voice and piano ], London : Elkin [sung text not yet checked]
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