Brown is my Love | Brown is my Love, but graceful

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Brown is my Love

Language: English

Our translations: GER

  Brown is my Love, but graceful:
  And each renowned whiteness,
Matched with her lovely brown loseth its brightness.

  Fair is my Love, but scornful,
  Yet have I seen despisèd
Dainty white lilies, and sad flowers well prizèd.

Confirmed with Rare Poems of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, collected and edited with notes by W.J. Linton, Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1883, page 175.

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, "Brown is my Love" [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 Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (1890 - 1937), "Brown is my Love", 1920, published 1959 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by John Jeffreys (1927 - 2010), "Brown is my Love" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953), "Brown is my Love", op. 12 no. 5 (1907), published 1908 [ voice and piano ], from Seven Elizabethan Lyrics, no. 5, London, Boosey [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

Research team for this page: Ted Perry , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 6
Word count: 37