This book of hours

This Book of Hours Love wrought 
With burnished letters gold, 
Each page with art and thought 
And colours manifold. 

His calendar he taught 
To youths and virgins cold --
This Book of Hours Love wrought 
With [letters burnished gold]1. 

[Love's]2 priceless book is bought
With sighs and tears untold 
Of votaries who sought
His countenance of old -- 
This Book of Hours Love wrought 
With [letters burnished gold]1.

by Walter Crane (1845-1915) , "Rondel", from Renascence: a book of verse, published 1891

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

by Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884-1920) , "This book of hours", op. 4 no. 1 (<<1914), published 1915 [soprano and piano], from Two Rondels for a Soprano Voice, no. 1.

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