by George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
I got me flowers
Language: English
I got me flowers to strew thy way; I got me boughs off many a tree: But thou wast up by break of day, And brought'st thy sweets along with thee. The Sun arising in the East, Though he give light, and the East perfume; If they should offer to contest With thy arising, they presume. Can there be any day but this, Though many suns to shine endeavour? We count three hundred, but we miss: There is but one, and that one ever.
Text Authorship:
- by George Herbert (1593 - 1633) [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 John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "I Got Me Flowers", op. 613 (1962) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rhian Samuel (b. 1944), "I got me flowers", 1979, first performed 1979 [ mixed chorus ], from Jacobean Lyrics, no. 1, Stainer & Bell [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958), "I got me flowers", 1911 [ baritone, chorus and orchestra ], from Five Mystical Songs, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
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