I call and I call

I call, I call: who do ye call?
The maids to catch this cowslip ball:
But since these cowslips fading be,
Troth, leave the flowers, and, maids, take me.
Yet, if that neither you will do,
Speak but the word and I'll take you.

by Robert Herrick (1591-1674) , "I call and I call"

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) , "I call and I call", op. 149 (Five songs) no. 2 (1941). [voice and piano]

Date added to the website: 2009-01-30.

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