Go, lovely Rose
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English
Go, lovely Rose!
Tell her, that wastes her time and me,
That now she knows,
When I resemble her to thee,
How sweet and fair she seems to be.
Tell her that's young
And shuns to have her graces spied
That hadst thou sprung
In deserts, where no men abide,
Thou must have uncommended died.
Small is the worth
Of beauty from the light retir'd;
Bid her come forth,
Suffer herself to be [desir'd]1,
And not blush so to be admir'd.
Then die! that she
The common fate of all things rare
May read in thee:
How small a part of time they share
That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
Yet though thou fade,
From thy dead leaves let fragrance rise;
And teach the maid
That goodness time's rude hand defies;
That virtue lives when beauty dies.
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1 Attwood: "admir'd" [possibly a mistake]
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 Samuel Hans Adler (1928-)
, "Go, lovely rose", from Three Songs about Love, no. 1.
by Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778)
, "Go, lovely Rose"
by Thomas Attwood (1765-1838)
, "Go, lovely rose"
by Seymour Barab (1921-)
, "Go lovely rose", from Four Songs, no. 1.
by Ernst Alexander 'Sas' Bunge (1924-1980)
, "Go, lovely rose", published 1950, rev. 1968, from Four XVIIth century poems, no. 2.
by John Alden Carpenter (1876-1951)
, "Go, lovely rose", stanzas 1-2,4-5?
by Richard Jackson Cumming (1928-)
, "Go, lovely rose"
by Roger Quilter (1877-1953)
, "Go, lovely rose", op. 24 no. 3, from Five English Love Lyrics, no. 3.
by Ned Rorem (1923-)
, "Song", from The Nantucket Songs, no. 4.
by Johann Peter Salomon (c1745-1815)
, "Go lov'ly Rose", stanzas 1-4.
Date added to the website: 2003-11-19.
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