O mistress mine, where are you roaming

O mistress mine, where are you roaming?
O stay and hear, your true love's coming 
That can sing both high and low.

[Trip]1 no further, pretty sweeting;
[Journeys]2 end in lovers' meeting,
Ev'ry wise man's son doth know.

What is love? 'Tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
What's to come is still unsure:

[In]3 delay there lies no plenty;
Then [come kiss]4 me, sweet and twenty;
Youth's a stuff will not endure.

by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) , no title, from Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene 3

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by David Werner Amram (1930-) , "O mistress mine", from Five Shakespeare Songs, no. 2.
by Garth Baxter (1946-) , "O mistress mine" [voice and guitar], from Four Songs from Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, no. 1.
by Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944) , "O mistress mine", op. 37 (Three Shakespeare Songs) no. 1.
by Theodore Ward Chanler (1902-1961) , "O mistress mine", 1936, published c1962.
by Ernest Bristow Farrar (1885-1918) , "O mistress mine"
by Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) , "O mistress mine", op. 18 no. 4 (1942), from Let Us Garlands Bring, no. 4.
by Wolfgang Fortner (1907-1987) , "O mistress mine", 1946, published 1947 [voice and piano], from Songs nach Texten von William Shakespeare mit Klavierbegleitung, no. 2.
by Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961) , "O mistress mine", 1903, note: this is an arrangement of Morley's piece.
by Lee Hoiby (1926-) , "O mistress mine", 1955 [voice and lute], from Songs of the Fool, no. 1.
by Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford (1910-1998) , "O mistress mine", from Six Shakespeare Songs, no. ?
by Mary Howe (1882-1964) , "O mistress mine"
by Erich Korngold (1897-1957) , "O mistress mine", op. 29 no. 2, from Songs of the Clown, no. 2.
by Thomas Morley (1557-1602) , "O mistress mine"
by Herbert Henry John Murrill (1909-1952) , "O mistress mine" [partsong]
by Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918) , "O mistress mine", 1874-1885, published 1886, from English Lyrics, set 2 no. 1
by Roger Quilter (1877-1953) , "O mistress mine", op. 6 no. 2, from Three Shakespeare Songs, no. 2.
by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) , "O mistress mine", op. 65 no. 1, from The Clown's Songs from Twelfth Night, no. 1.
by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) , "O mistress mine", 1891, published 1913.
by Richard Henry Walthew (1872-1951) , "Mistress mine"
by Peter Warlock (1894-1930) [pseudonym] , "Sweet-and-Twenty", 1924, published 1924.

by Wilhelm Petersen (1890-1957) , "Lied des Narren", op. 46 no. 1, from Lieder aus Shakespeare-Dramen, no. 1.

by Oscar Weil (1839?-1921) , "Wo schweifst du, Herrin", op. 32 no. 3, published 1902, from Drei Lieder von Shakespeare, no. 3.

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