The broken flower

Oh! wear it on thy heart, my love!
Still, still a little while! 
Sweetness is lingering in its leaves. 
Though faded be their smile.
 
Yet, for the sake of what hath been. 
Oh! cast it not away! 
'Twas born to grace a summer scene, 
A long, bright, golden day. 
My love ! 
A long, bright, golden day! 

A little while around thee, love! 
Its fragrance yet shall cling. 
Telling, that on thy heart hath lain, 
A fair, though faded thing.

But not ev'n that warm heart hath power
To win it back from fate : 
Oh! I am like thy broken flower, 
Cherish'd too late, too late. 
My love! 
Cherish'd, alas! too late.

by Felicia Dorothea (Browne) Hemans (1793-1835) , "The broken flower"

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

by Sir Frederic Hymen Cowen (1852-1935) , "The broken flower", published 1895. [voice and piano]
by Benjamin Hime , "The broken flower", published <<1848. [voice and piano]
by Oliver A. King (1855-1923) , "The broken flower", published 1891. [partsong for SATB chorus and piano ad libitum]
by Alfred Stourton , "The broken flower" [medium or low voice and piano]

by Karl Ludwig Friedrich Hetsch (1806-1872) , "Die gebrochene Blume", <<1872. [soprano or tenor and piano]
by Theodor Mohr , "Die gebrochene Blume" [voice and piano], from 3 Lieder, no. ?
by Karl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke (1824-1910) , "Die gebrochene Blume", op. 10 (Sechs Lieder) no. 2 (1846). [voice and piano]
by Max Spicker (1858-1912) , "Die gebrochene Blume" [men's chorus and piano], from Liebe-Album, no. ?

Date added to the website: 2008-11-21.

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Die gebrochene Blume

O trag' sie an der Brust, mein Lieb
Noch einen Augenblick!
Ihr Lächeln floh, ihr Reiz ist hin,
Ihr Duft doch blieb zurück.

Drum, einer Zeit zulieb, die war,
Wirf sie nicht von dir, ach!
Sie blüht' in ihrer Schwestern Schar
Einen langen goldnen Tag,
Mein Lieb!
Einen langen goldnen Tag!

Noch eine kurze Zeit, mein Lieb,
Soll dich ihr Duft umwehn;
An deinem Herzen soll sie ruhn,
Verwelkt und doch noch schön!

Doch selbst dein Herz nicht, warm und weich,
Schützt sie vor Todeshand:
Ich bin deiner Blume gleich,
Zu spät, zu spät erkannt,
Mein Lieb!
O Gott, zu spät erkannt!

by Ferdinand Freiligrath (1810-1876)

a text in English by Felicia Dorothea (Browne) Hemans (1793-1835) , "The broken flower"

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

by Karl Ludwig Friedrich Hetsch (1806-1872) , "Die gebrochene Blume", <<1872. [soprano or tenor and piano]
by Theodor Mohr , "Die gebrochene Blume" [voice and piano], from 3 Lieder, no. ?
by Karl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke (1824-1910) , "Die gebrochene Blume", op. 10 (Sechs Lieder) no. 2 (1846). [voice and piano]
by Max Spicker (1858-1912) , "Die gebrochene Blume" [men's chorus and piano], from Liebe-Album, no. ?

Date added to the website: 2008-11-21.