A bowl of roses (Henley, set by R. Clarke, F. Scott) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


It was a bowl of roses:
   There in the light they lay,
Languishing, glorying, glowing
   Their life away.

And the soul of them rose like a presence,
   Into me crept and grew,
And filled me with something -- some one --
   O, was it you?

Authorship

William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)

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

Robert Coningsby Clarke (1879-1934)

Francis George Scott (1880-1958)

Date added to the website: 2008-01-19.

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