O mistress mine, where are you roaming?
O stay and hear, your true love's coming 
That can sing both high and low.

[Trip]1 no [further]2, pretty sweeting;
[Journeys]3 end in lovers' meeting,
Ev'ry wise man's son doth know.

What is love? 'Tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
What's to come is still unsure:

[In]4 delay there lies no plenty;
Then [come kiss]5 me, sweet and twenty;
Youth's a stuff will not endure.

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¹ Korngold: "O trip"
² [sic] ; and Hall: "farther"
³ Korngold: "For journeyes"
⁴ Korngold: "And in"
⁵ Korngold: "come and kiss"

Text Authorship:

• by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Twelfth Night: or, What You Will, Act II, Scene 3 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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

• by Bruce Adolphe (b. 1955), "O mistress mine", first performed 2001 [ soprano and piano ], from A Thousand Years of Love, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by David Werner Amram (b. 1930), "O mistress mine", published 1972 [ tenor and piano or orchestra ], from Five Shakespeare Songs, no. 2, New York, Peters [sung text checked 1 time]
• by (Howard) Orsmond Anderton (1861 - 1934), "Oh mistress mine where are you roaming?", published [1910?] [ tenor and piano ], from 3 Shakespeare Songs, London : Forsyth [sung text not yet checked]
• by Joseph W. Baber (b. 1937), "O mistress mine", op. 9 no. ? (1953-6) [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Shakespearean Madrigals, Set 3 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "O mistress mine", 2011 [ baritone and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (1868 - 1946), "O mistress mine", 1934 [ voice and piano ], from Six Shakespeare Songs, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir (1883 - 1953), "O mistress mine", 1916 [ voice and string quartet ], from Two Songs for Voice and String Quartet, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Garth Baxter (b. 1946), "O mistress mine" [ voice and guitar ], from Four Songs from Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867 - 1944), "O mistress mine", op. 37 (Three Shakespeare Songs) no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Winifred May Bury (1897 - 1977), "O mistress mine", 1938 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Mary Grant Carmichael (1851 - 1935), "O Mistress mine", published 1889 [ voice and piano ], from Four Songs, no. 3, London: J. & J. Hopkinson ; possibly published 1887 in Songs of the Stream [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895 - 1968), "O mistress mine", 1922, published 1924 [ high voice and piano ], from Shakespeare Songs, Book IV, no. 3, London : Chester [sung text not yet checked]
• by Theodore Ward Chanler (1902 - 1961), "O mistress mine", 1936, published c1962 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875 - 1912), "O mistress mine", published 1906 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Elizabeth Craven, Baroness (1750 - 1828), "O mistress mine", published 1790? [ vocal duet with continuo ], London : Preston & Son [sung text not yet checked]
• by Gordon Conrad Cyr (1925 - 2007), "O mistress mine", 1961-2, first performed 1963 [ high voice and chamber orchestra ], from Three Shakespeare Songs [sung text not yet checked]
• by (Henry) Walford Davies, Sir (1869 - 1941), "O mistress mine", op. 13 no. 1, published 1902 [ voice and piano ], from The Clown's Songs in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Emma Lou Diemer (b. 1927), "O mistress mine, where are you roaming", 1960, published 1962, first performed 1960 [ SATB chorus and piano ], from Three Madrigals, NY : Boosey [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ernest Bristow Farrar (1885 - 1918), "O mistress mine", op. 13, published 1921 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Gerald Finzi (1901 - 1956), "O mistress mine", op. 18 no. 4 (1942), from Let Us Garlands Bring, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Wolfgang Fortner (1907 - 1987), "O mistress mine", 1946, published 1947 [ voice and piano ], from Songs nach Texten von William Shakespeare mit Klavierbegleitung , no. 2, Mainz : Schott, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
• by John Linton Gardner (1917 - 2011), "O mistress mine", op. 66 no. 3, published 1964 [ women's chorus, piano duet, and optional percussion ], from A Shakespeare Sequence, no. 3, London : Oxford University Press [sung text not yet checked]
• by Steven R. Gerber (b. 1948), "Oh mistress mine", 1988 [ medium voice and piano ], from Six Songs of William Shakespeare, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882 - 1961), "O mistress mine", 1903, note: this is an arrangement of Morley's piece.  [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Juliana Hall (b. 1958), "O, mistress mine", 2015, first performed 2016 [ counter-tenor and piano ], from O Mistress Mine -- 12 Songs for countertenor and piano on texts from plays by William Shakespeare, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Lee Hoiby (1926 - 2011), "O mistress mine", 1955 [ voice and lute ], from Songs of the Fool, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford (1910 - 1998), "O mistress mine", 1986 [ voice and piano ], from Seven Shakespeare Songs, London : Lengnick [sung text not yet checked]
• by Mary (Carlisle) Howe (1882 - 1964), "O mistress mine" [sung text not yet checked]
• by John Jeffreys (1927 - 2010), "O mistress mine" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Sven Eric Emanuel Johanson (1919 - 1997), "O mistress mine", 1974, copyright © 1978 [ mixed chorus and piano ], from Fancies, no. 5, Stockholm : C. Gehrmans Musikförlag ; New York : Walton Music Corp. [sung text not yet checked]
• by Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897 - 1957), "O mistress mine", op. 29 no. 2, published 1937 [ voice and piano ], from Songs of the Clown, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Elizabeth Maconchy (1907 - 1994), "O mistress mine", c1926 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Thomas Morley (1557 - 1602), "O mistress mine" [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Herbert Henry John Murrill (1909 - 1952), "O mistress mine" [ chorus ], partsong [sung text not yet checked]
• by Alicia Adélaïda Needham (1863 - 1945), "O mistress mine", published 1898? [ voice and piano ], London : Novello, Ewer & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
• by Norman Houston O'Neill (1875 - 1934), "O mistress mine" [ voice and orchestra ], from Shakespeare Songs, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (1848 - 1918), "O mistress mine", 1874-1885, published 1886, from English Lyrics, Second Set, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Daniel Lee Pederson (flourished after 2000), "Sweet and Twenty", 2003 [ satb chorus a cappella ], confirmed with an online score [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Humphrey Procter-Gregg (1895 - 1980), "O mistress mine" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953), "O mistress mine", op. 6 no. 2 (1905), published 1905 [ voice and piano or orchestra ], from Three Shakespeare Songs (First Set), no. 2, Boosey [sung text checked 1 time]
• by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "O Mistress Mine", op. 81 (1945) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "O Mistress Mine", op. 282 (1950) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "O Mistress Mine", op. 330 (1951) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "O Mistress Mine", op. 372 (1952) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "O Mistress Mine", op. 515 (1958) [sung text not yet checked]
• by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "O Mistress Mine", op. 591 (1961) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Peter Sculthorpe (b. 1929), "O mistress mine" [ baritone voice with piano ], from Four Shakespeare songs, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Arthur Somervell, Sir (1863 - 1937), "O mistress mine", published 1927 [ voice and piano ], from Three New Old Songs, no. 3, confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (1852 - 1924), "O mistress mine", op. 65 no. 1 (1896), published 1897 [ voice and piano ], from The Clown's Songs from Twelfth Night, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Douglas Steele (1910 - 1999), "O mistress mine" [ voice and piano ], Manchester, Forsyth Publications ; two settings, each with the possessive apostrophe removed in line 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Arthur Sullivan, Sir (1842 - 1900), "O Mistress Mine", published 1866 [ voice and piano ], from 5 Shakespeare Songs, Metzler & Co. [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958), "O mistress mine", 1891, published 1913 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Richard Henry Walthew (1872 - 1951), "Mistress mine" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Peter Warlock (1894 - 1930), "Sweet-and-Twenty", 1924, published 1924 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by (James) Healey Willan (1880 - 1968), "O mistress mine" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Mabel Nightingale Woodward (1876 - 1911), "O mistress mine", published 1912 [ voice and piano ], from Songs, no. 13, Birmingham : Press of the Birmingham Printers [sung text not yet checked]

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• Also set in English, a translation by Ida Goldschmidt, née Livingston (1863 - 1933) ; composed by Roger Quilter.
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• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767 - 1845) ; composed by Walter Braunfels, Wilhelm Petersen.
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• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Franz Hermann Schneider (1860 - 1930) ; composed by Oscar Weil.
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• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767 - 1845) , no title ; composed by Paul Angerer, Wolfgang Fortner, Adolf Reichel.
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• Also set in Norwegian (Bokmål), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Catharinus Elling.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Paavo Cajander)
• FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo)
• GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (David Paley) , "O Fräulein meins! Woher du wanderst", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• IRI Irish (Gaelic) [singable] (Gabriel Rosenstock) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ITA Italian (Italiano) (Paolo Montanari) , "O mia signora", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• POL Polish (Polski) (Józef Komierowski) , no title [an adaptation]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 74