Come live with me (Marlowe, set by W. Bennett) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


 Come live with me and be my love,
 And we will all the pleasures prove
 That hill and valley, dale and field,
 And all the craggy mountains yield.

 There will we sit upon the rocks,
 And see the shepherds feed their flocks,
 By shallow rivers to whose falls
 Melodious birds sing madrigals.

 And if these pleasures may thee move,
 Then live with me and be my love.

 There will I make thee beds of roses
 With a thousand fragrant posies,
 A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
 Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle;

 The shepherd swains shall dance and sing
 For thy delight each May morning:
 If these delights thy mind may move,
 Then live with me and be my love.

Authorship

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

Based on

text

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

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

William Sterndale Bennett (1816-1875)

Set in English, adapted by Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) ENG

Rubin Goldmark (1872-1936)

Set in English, adapted by Frederic Reynolds (1764-1841) ENG

Henry Rowley Bishop (1785-1855)

Set in English, adapted by Cecil Day Lewis (1904-1972) ENG [text unavailable]

Edward Gregson (1945-)

Five Songs of Innocence and Experience

Date added to the website: 2003-12-19.

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