Come live with me (Reynolds, set by H. Bishop) (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,
There will I make thee beds of roses,
With a thousand fragrant posies;

If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my love.

Authorship

Frederic Reynolds (1764-1841)

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)

Henry Rowley Bishop (1785-1855)

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

Rubin Goldmark (1872-1936)

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

William Sterndale Bennett (1816-1875)

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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