by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
How marigolds came yellow
Language: English
Jealous girls these sometimes were, While they liv'd or lasted here : Turn'd to flowers, still they be Yellow, mark'd for jealousy.
Text Authorship:
- by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674) [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 marigolds came yellow", op. 167 (Five Songs for Voice and Pianoforte) no. 2 (1948) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Andy Vores (b. 1956), "How marigolds came yellow", from Household Tales, no. 8 [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 4
Word count: 21