There is a garden in her face

There is a garden in her face,
Where roses and white lilies grow;
A heav'nly paradise is that place,
Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow.
There cherries grow, which none may buy
Till "Cherry ripe", themselves do cry.

Those cherries fairly do enclose
Of orient pearl a double row;
Which when her lovely laughter shows,
They look like rosebuds filled with snow.
Yet them no peer nor prince can buy
Till "Cherry ripe", themselves do cry.

Her eyes like angels watch them still;
Her brows like bended bows do stand,
Threat'ning with piercing frowns to kill
All that attempt with eye or hand
Those sacred cherries to come nigh
Till "Cherry ripe", themselves do cry.

by Thomas Campion (1567-1620)

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

by Geoffrey Bush (1920-1998) , "There is a garden in her face"
by Thomas Campion (1567-1620) , "There is a garden in her face", published 1617, from The third and fovrth booke of ayres
by Brian Holmes (1946-) , "There is a garden in her face", from Six Ayres, no. 3.
by John Ireland (1879-1962) , "There is a garden in her face", 1908 [soprano, alto, and piano], from Eight songs for upper voices and piano, no. 2.
by Virgil Garnett Thomson (1896-1989) , "There is a garden in her face", from Four songs to poems of Thomas Campion, no. 2.

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