Fair is my Love (Spenser, set by A. Bliss) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


 Fair is my Love, when her fair golden hairs
 With the loose wind ye waving chance to mark;
 Fair, when the rose in her red cheeks appears;
 Or in her eyes the fire of love does spark.

 Fair, when her breast, like a rich-laden bark,
 With precious merchandise she forth doth lay;
 Fair, when that cloud of price, which oft doth dark
 Her goodly light, with smiles she drives away.

 But fairest she, when so she doth display
 The gate with pearls and rubies richly dight,
 Through which her words so wise do make their way
 To bear the message of her gentle sprite.
 The rest be works of nature's wonderment:
 But this the work of hearts' astonishment.

Input by Ted Perry

Authorship

Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

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

Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir (1891-1975)

Two love songs

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