Cherries (Browning, set by G. Bantock) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Verse-making was least of my virtues : I viewed with despair 
Wealth that never yet was but might be all that verse-making were 
If the life would but lengthen to wish, let the mind be laid bare. 
So I said "To do little is bad, to do nothing is worse" -- And made verse. 
Love-making, how simple a matter ! No depths to explore, 
No heights in a life to ascend ! No disheartening Before, 
No affrighting Hereafter, love now will be love evermore. 
So I felt " To keep silence were folly : " all language above, I made love.

Authorship

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

Ferishtah's Fancies

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

Sir Granville Ransome Bantock (1868-1946)

Lyrics from "Ferishtah's Fancies"

Date added to the website: 2009-02-26.

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