To a bed of tulips (Herrick, set by F. Hart) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Bright tulips, we do know
    You had your coming hither,
And fading-time does show
    That ye must quickly wither.

Your sisterhoods may stay,
    And smile here for your hour ;
But die ye must away,
    Even as the meanest flower.

Come, virgins, then and see
    Your frailties, and bemoan ye ;
For, lost like these, 'twill be
    As time had never known ye.

Authorship

Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

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

Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874-1949)

Fourteen songs

Date added to the website: 2009-01-30.

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