Unmindful of the roses

Unmindful of the roses,
Unmindful of the thorn,
A reaper tired reposes
Among his gathered corn:
So might I, till the morn!

Cold as the cold Decembers,
Past as the days that set,
While only one remembers
And all the rest forget, --
But one remembers yet.

by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) , "One Sea-Side Grave", from Century (May 1884)

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 Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) , "Unmindful of the roses", published 1904 [alto and piano], from Six Sorrow Songs, no. 5.
by Hermann Frederic Löhr (1872-1943) , "Unmindful of the roses", published 1909. [voice and piano]
by Edwin Schneider , "Unmindful of the roses", published 1909. [voice and piano]

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