by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
Thou gav'st me leave to kiss
Language: English
Thou gav'st me leave to kiss; Thou gav'st me leave to woo; Thou mad'st me think by this And that, thou lov'dst me too. But I shall ne'er forget, How, for to make thee merry, Thou mad'st me chop, but yet, Another snapt the cherry.
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Text Authorship:
- by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), "Chop-cherry" [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), "Chop-cherry", op. 51 (Twenty-Five Songs in Five Sets of Five Each: Set II) no. 4 (1922) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Peter Warlock (1894 - 1930), "Thou gav'st me leave to kiss", 1923, published 1924 [ voice and piano ], from Two Short Songs, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 45