To Daffodils

Fair daffodils, we weep to see
You haste away so soon;
As yet the early-rising sun
Has not attain'd his noon.
Stay, stay
Until the hasting day
Has run
But to the evensong,
And, having pray'd together, we	
Will go with you along.

We have short time to stay, as you,
We have as short a spring;
As quick a growth to meet decay,
As you, or anything.
We die,
As your hours [do,]1 and dry
Away,
Like to the summer's rain,
Or as the pearls of morning's dew,
Ne'er to be found again.

by Robert Herrick (1591-1674) , "To Daffodils"

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

by Frank Bridge (1879-1941) , "Fair daffodils"
by (Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) , "To daffodils", 1950, from Five Flower Songs, no. 1.
by Harold Edwin Darke (1888-1977) , "To daffodils"
by Frederick Delius (1862-1934) , "To Daffodils", 1915-6, published 1919 [voice and piano], from Four Old English Lyrics, no. 3.
by Ernest Bristow Farrar (1885-1918) , "To daffodils" [satb]

FIN Finnish (Erkki Pullinen)
DUT Dutch (Pauline Kroger)

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