O my Luve's like a red, red rose

O my Luve's like a red, red rose 
  That's newly sprung in June: 
O my Luve's like the melodie 
  That's sweetly play'd in tune. 

As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, 
  So deep in luve am I: 
And I will luve thee still, my dear, 
  Till a' the seas gang dry: 

Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear, 
  And the rocks melt wi' the sun; 
I will luve thee still, my dear, 
  While the sands o' life shall run. 

And fare thee weel, my only Luve! 
  And fare thee weel a while! 
And I will come again, my Luve, 
  Tho' it were ten thousand mile.

by Robert Burns (1759-1796)

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

by David Arditti (1964-) , "O My Luve's Like a Red, Red Rose", op. 1 no. 2, first performed 1994, from Burns Songs, no. 2.
by Ernst Bacon (1898-1990) , "The red rose"
by Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944) , "My luve is like a red, red rose", op. 12 (Three Songs) no. 3 (1887). [treble voice and piano]
by Ernest Gold (1921-) , "A red, red rose"
by Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford (1910-1998) , "A red, red rose" [voice and piano], from Five Burns Songs, no. 1.
by John G. Koch (1928-) , "O my Luve's like a red, red rose"
by George Theophilus Walker (1922-) , "A red, red rose"

by Gustav Eggers (1835-1861) , "Die rothe, rothe Ros'", op. 11 (Vier Gesänge) no. 4, published 1862. [voice and piano]
by Robert Alexander Schumann (1810-1856) , "Dem roten Röslein gleicht mein Lieb", op. 27 no. 2 (1840).

by Friedrich Niggli (1875-1959) , "Mein Lieb ist wie die Rose rot", published 195-? [men's chorus]

by (Isador) George Henschel (1850-1934) , "Mein Lieb, das ist ein Röslein rot", op. 12 no. 2 (187-?)

by Robert Franz (1815-1892) , "Mein Lieb ist eine rote Ros'", op. 31 (Sechs Gesänge) no. 3, published 1870?

by Joseph (Gabriel) Rheinberger (1839-1901) , "Mein Schatz ist eine rote Ros'", op. 26 (Sieben Lieder) no. 3 (1860), published 1871. [medium voice and piano]

by Zdenko Antonín Václav Fibich (1850-1900) , "Má dívenka jak růže", op. 12 (Šestero písní) no. 1, H. 237 no. 1 (1872).

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