by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
See yon opening flower
Language: English
See yon opening flower Spreads its fragrance to the blast; It fades within an hour, Its decay is pale-is fast. Paler is yon maiden; Faster is her heart's decay; Deep with sorrow laden, She sinks in death away.
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Confirmed with Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley...together with His Prefaces and Notes, His Poetical Translations and Fragments and an Appendix of Juvenilia, Band 2, Reeves, 1892, p.391
Text Authorship:
- by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822), "Song from the wandering Jew" [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 Evelyn Hope Squire (1878 - 1936), "See, you opening flower", 1919 [ voice and piano ], from Four Short Songs, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
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