Cherry‑ripe

Cherry-ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry,
Full and fair ones; come and buy.
If [so]1 be you ask me where
They do grow, I answer: There,
Where my Julia's lips do smile;
There's the land, or cherry-isle,
Whose plantations fully show
All the year where cherries grow.

by Robert Herrick (1591-1674) , "Cherry-ripe", from The Hesperides

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

by Eleanor Everest Freer (1864-1942) , "Cherry ripe", op. 4 no. 8, published 1905 [voice and piano], from A Book of Songs, no. 8.
by C. E. (Charles Edward) Horn (1786-1849) , "Cherry ripe"
by Roger Quilter (1877-1953) , "Cherry ripe", from To Julia, no. 6.
by Ned Rorem (1923-) , "Cherry-ripe", from Flight For Heaven, no. 2.

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