by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936)
'Tis spring; come out to ramble
Language: English
'Tis spring; come out to ramble The hilly brakes around, For under thorn and bramble About the hollow ground The primroses are found. And there's the windflower chilly With all the winds at play, And there's the Lenten lily That has not long to stay And dies on Easter Day. And since till girls go maying You find the primrose still, And find the windflower playing With every wind at will, But not the daffodil. Bring baskets now, and sally Upon the spring's array, And bear from hill and valley The daffodil away That dies on Easter Day.
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Authorship:
- by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936), "The lent lily", appears in A Shropshire Lad, no. 29, first published 1896 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Constance Maclean Champion , "The flowers of Easter", published 1964 [ four-part chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alfred Redgrave Cripps (1882 - 1950), "The lent lily", published <<1944 [ voice and piano ], from Five "Shropshire Lad" Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (1890 - 1937), "The lent lily", 1919, published 1923 [ tenor, string quartet, and piano ], from Ludlow and Teme, no. 7 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Timothy Hoekman , "The lent lily", 1982, published 1988 [ voice and piano ], from Seven Housman Songs, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford (1910 - 1998), "The lent lily", from A Shropshire Lad, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by John (Nicholson) Ireland (1879 - 1962), "The lent lily", published 1921 [ voice and piano ], from The Land of Lost Content, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Hilda Milvain , "The lenten lily", published 1925 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Wilfred Orr (1893 - 1976), "The lent lily", 1928, published 1934 [ baritone and piano ], from Seven Songs from "A Shropshire Lad", no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Morfydd Owen (1891 - 1918), "The lent lily" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "The Lent Lily", op. 185 (1948) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "The Lent Lily", op. 588 (1961) [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "The Lent Lily", op. 657 (1965) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Leslie Russell , "The lent lily", 1970-4 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Ramsden Williamson (1929 - 2015), "The lent lily" [ baritone and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Stanley Wilson , "The lent lily", published <<1967 [ TTBB chorus a cappella ], from Four Songs from "A Shropshire Lad" [sung text not yet checked]
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