Chop‑cherry

Thou gav'st me leave to kiss;
Thou gav'st me leave to woo;
Thou mad'st me think by this 
And that, thou lov'dst me too.
But I shall ne'er forget,
How, for to make thee merry,
Thou mad'st me chop, but yet,
Another snapt the cherry.

by Robert Herrick (1591-1674) , "Chop-cherry"

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) , "Chop-cherry", op. 51 (Twenty-Five Songs in Five Sets of Five Each: Set II) no. 4 (1922). [voice and piano]
by Peter Warlock (1894-1930) [pseudonym] , "Thou gav'st me leave to kiss", 1923, published 1924.

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