Vine, vine and eglantine

Vine, vine and eglantine,
Clasp her window, trail and twine!
Rose, rose and clematis,
Trail and twine and clasp and kiss,
Kiss, - kiss; and make her a bower
All of flowers.
And drop me a flower.

Vine, vine and eglantine,
Cannot a flower, - a flower be mine?
Rose, rose and clematis,
Drop me a flower, a flower to kiss,
Kiss, - kiss - and out of her bower
All of flowers, - a flower, - a flower
Drop, - a flower.

by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) , from The Windows, or The Loves of the Wrens, no. 2, published 1867, rev. 1871

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

by Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir (1891-1975) , "At the window"
by Luther Moffitt , "Vine and eglantine", published 1937. [voice and piano]
by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) , "Drop me a flower", published 1920 [voice and piano], from Six songs, no. ?
by Douglas MacDonald Stewart (1892-?) , "At the window", published 1920. [voice and piano]
by Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) , "At the window", published 1871 [voice and piano], from The Window, or The Songs of the Wrens, no. 2.
by Sidney Thomson , "At the window", published 1893 [voice and piano], from The Window or the Song of the Wrens, no. ?
by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) , "Vine, vine and eglantine", 1896. [SATB quartet and piano]
by Richard Henry Walthew (1872-1951) , "At the window", published 1905. [voice and piano]
by F. Cunningham Woods , "Vine, vine and eglantine", op. 1 (Six songs (Set 2)) no. ?, published 1891. [voice and piano]

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