The banks of the daisies | As Kathleen fair beyond compare

by Alfred Perceval Graves (1846 - 1931)

Translation

The banks of the daisies

Language: English after the English

As Kathleen fair beyond compare
Asleep upon a bank I spied;
All upon tiptoe I sought her side
And kissed her down in the daisies.

But up she starts and on me darts
The shafts of scorn from lip and eye,
Then in a storm goes sweeping by,
And leaves me alone with the daisies.

But when next day I chanced that way,
There Kathleen blushed in all her charms,
With sighs she sank into my arms,
And we told our love to the daisies.

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a text in English by Alfred Perceval Graves (1846 - 1931), "The banks of the daisies"

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (1852 - 1924), "The banks of the daisies", published [1882?] [voice and piano], from the collection Songs of Old Ireland. A Collection of Fifty Irish Melodies Unknown in England, no. 45, arrangement ; London, Boosey & Co. ; dedicated to Johannes Brahms, August 1882 [
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Researcher for this text: Mike Pearson

This text was added to the website: 2015-04-08
Line count: 12
Word count: 85