Belovèd, thou hast brought me many...

Belovèd, thou hast brought me many flowers
Plucked in the garden, all the summer through
And winter, and it seemed as if they grew
In this close room, nor missed the sun and showers.
So, in the like name of that love of ours,
Take back these thoughts which here unfolded too,
And which on warm and cold days I withdrew
From my heart's ground. Indeed, those beds and bowers
Be overgrown with bitter weeds and rue,
And wait thy weeding; yet here's eglantine,
Here's ivy! -- take them, as I used to do
Thy flowers, and keep them where they shall not pine.
Instruct thine eyes to keep their colours true,
And tell thy soul, their roots are left in mine.

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) , no title, from Poems, in Sonnets from the Portuguese, no. 44, published 1850

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

by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968) , "Poems and flowers", published 1928 [voice and piano], from Three Sonnets from the Portuguese, no. ?, note: melody based on Chopin's Prelude no. 3 in G (op. 28)
by Louis Cheslock (1898-1981) , "Belovèd, thou hast brought me many flowers" [mezzo-soprano or tenor and piano]
by Celius Dougherty (1902-1986) , "Belovèd, thou hast brought me many flowers", 1975 [soprano and piano], from Eglantine and Ivy, no. ?
by Eleanor Everest Freer (1864-1942) , "Belovèd, thou hast brought me many flowers", published 1910 [medium voice and piano], from Sonnets from the Portuguese, no. 44.
by Michael Alexander Kimbell (1946-) , "Belovèd, thou hast brought me many flowers", 1965-6, first performed 1966 [soprano and piano], from Three Sonnets from the Portuguese, no. ?
by Libby Larsen (1950-) , "Belovèd, thou hast brought me many flowers", first performed 1994 [voice, violoncello, and piano], from Belovèd, thou hast brought me many flowers, no. 1.
by Peter Tahourdin (1928-2009) , "Belovèd, thou hast brought me many flowers", 1968, first performed 1970 [cantata: sp., alto, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, two violins, viola, violoncello, tape], from Riders in Paradise, no. ?

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