To laurels

A funeral stone
Or verse I covet none,
But only crave
Of you that I may have
A sacred laurel springing from my grave:
Which being seen,
Blest with perpetual green,
May grow to be
Not so much call'd a tree
As the eternal monument of me.

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

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) , "To laurels", op. 23 (Twenty-one songs) no. 10 (1916). [voice and piano]

Date added to the website: 2009-01-31.

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