Sweete floweres, ye were too fair (Thomas Attwood Walmisley)

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• (Posted 2023-12-15)  CPDL #78243:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-15).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 598 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Sweete floweres, ye were too fair
Composer: Thomas Attwood Walmisley
Lyricist: Isabella Jane Towers
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1865 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

TO GATHERED ROSES
(In imitation of Herrick)

Sweete floweres! ye were too fair:
With drooping lids
Among your heavie morning teares
I found ye.
Faire buds! I left ye there:
For sorrow bids
Briefe greeting to gay youthe; it feares
To wounde ye.

But, deare roses,– in your noone
That graceful merrie prime,–
I stole away the lovelie boone:
And was it not a crime
To rob the wooing aire of your sweete breath?
Ah! daintie floweres,
The wanton houres
Of mid-day’s golden shine,
Will see ye pine
To-morrowe,– and so fade away to death!