by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
You pretty flowers
Language: English
You pretty flowers that smile for summer's sake, pull in your heads before my wat'ry eyes do turn the meadows to a standing lake, by whose untimely floods your glory dies, for lo, my heart resolved to moist'ning air, feeding mine eyes, redoubles tear for tear.
Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked 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 John Farmer (c1570 - c1601?5), "You pretty flowers" [SATB chorus a cappella] [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2009-07-26
Line count: 6
Word count: 46