Choose me your valentine

Choose me your valentine,
Next let us marry --
Love to the death will pine
If we long tarry.
Promise, and keep your vows,
Or vow ye never --
Love's doctrine disallows
Troth-breakers ever.
You have broke promise twice,
Dear, to undo me,
If you prove faithless thrice
None then will woo ye.

by Robert Herrick (1591-1674) , "To his mistress"

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

by Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874-1949) , "Choose me your valentine", op. 10 (Fourteen songs) no. 9 (1912). [voice and piano]

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

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