The Market-Girl (Hardy, set by G. Finzi, A. Bax, F. Goossen, A. Hale) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Nobody took any notice of her as she stood on the causey kerb,
All eager to sell her honey and apples and bunches of garden herb;
And if she had offered to give her wares and herself with them too that day,
I doubt if a soul would have cared to take a bargain so choice away.

But chancing to trace her sunburnt grace that morning as I passed nigh,
I went and I said, "Poor maidy dear! -- and will none of the people buy?"
And so it began; and soon we knew what the end of it all must be,
And I found that though no others had bid, a prize had been won by me.

First published in The Venture, 1903, rev. 1909
Authorship

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses

At Casterbridge Fair

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

Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax (1883-1953)

Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)

Till Earth Outwears

Frederic Goossen (1927-)

At Casterbridge Fair

Alfred Matthew Hale (1875-1960)

At Casterbridge Fair

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