by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
Love on a day, wise poets tell
Language: English
Love on a day, wise poets tell, Some time in wrangling spent, Whether the violets should excel Or she, in sweetest scent. But Venus having lost the day, Poor girls, she fell on you : And beat ye so, as some dare say, Her blows did make ye blue.
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Text Authorship:
- by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), "How violets became blue" [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 Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949), "How violets came blue", op. 10 (Fourteen songs) no. 10 (1912) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Andy Vores (b. 1956), "How violets came blew", from Household Tales, no. 7 [sung text checked 1 time]
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Word count: 48