How should I your true love know
Language:
English
How should I your true love know
From another one?
By his cockle hat and staff,
And his sandal shoon.
He is dead and gone, lady,
He is dead and gone;
At his head a grass green turf,
At his heels a stone.
White his shroud as the mountain snow,
Larded with sweet flowers;
Which bewept to the grave did go
With true-love showers.
And will he not come again?
And will he not come again?
No, no, he is dead:
Go to thy deathbed.
He never, never will come again,
He never will come again.
His beard was as white as snow,
All flaxen was his poll;
He is gone,
And we cast away moan:
God ha' mercy on his soul.
Note: this is often referred to as the Walsingham Ballad, and is quoted in Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 5
Input by Ted Perry
Authorship
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text),
listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
 by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
, no title, WoO posth. 22 no. 1 (1873), stanzas 1-2, from Ophelia-Lieder, no. 1, note: also set in German
by Roger Quilter (1877-1953)
, "How should I your true love know", op. 30 no. 3, stanzas 1-3.
by Maude Valérie White (1855-1937)
, "Ophelia's Song"
Set in
German,
a translation of
Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
ITA GER
Set in
German,
a translation of
August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767-1845)
ITA GER
Set in
German,
a translation of
Karl Joseph Simrock (1802-1876)
ITA GER
Available translations (or transliterations, if applicable):
ITA
Italian
(Ferdinando Albeggiani)
Added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Wie erkenn' ich dein Treulieb
Language:
German
Wie erkenn' ich dein Treulieb
Vor den andern nun?
An den Muschelhut und Stab.
Und den Sandalschuh'n.
Er ist lange tot und hin,
Tot und hin, Fräulein!
Ihm zu Häupten ein Rasen grün,
Ihm zu Fuß ein Stein.
Authorship
Based on
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text),
listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
Date added to the website: 2003-11-14.
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