Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower

Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower,
But I could never sell --
If you would like to borrow,
Until the Daffodil

Unties her yellow Bonnet
Beneath the village door,
Until the Bees, from Clover rows
Their Hock, and Sherry, draw,

Why, I will lend until just then,
But not an hour more!

by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) , no title, from Poems of Emily Dickinson, published 1890

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

by James Fitzwilliam (1963-) , "Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower", 2002, from Three Flower Songs, no. 1.
by George Perle (1915-) , "Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower", 1977 [voice and piano], from Thirteen Dickinson Songs, no. ?
by Gitta Steiner (1932-) , "Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower", published 1971 [SATB chorus a cappella], from Five Poems for Mixed Chorus, no. ?

FRE French (Guy Laffaille)

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