O my [Luve's]1 like a red, red rose That's newly sprung in June: O my [Luve's]1 like the melodie That's sweetly play'd in tune. As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, [So]2 deep in luve am I: And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a' the seas gang dry: Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi' the sun; I will luve thee still, my dear, While the sands o' life shall run. And fare thee weel, my only Luve! And fare thee weel a while! And I will come again, my Luve, Tho' it were ten thousand mile.
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View original text (without footnotes)Note: due to a similarity in first lines, Berg's song O wär' mein Lieb' jen' Röslein roth is often erroneously indicated as a translation of this poem.
1 Beach and Scott: "Luve is"; Bacon: "love's"2 Scott: "Sae"
Text Authorship:
- by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796) [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 David Arditti (b. 1964), "O My Luve's Like a Red, Red Rose", op. 1 no. 2, first performed 1994, from Burns Songs, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "The red rose", alternate title: "Melody in June", c1945-9 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867 - 1944), "My luve is like a red, red rose", op. 12 (Three Songs) no. 3 (1887) [ treble voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Frederick Brandeis (1835 - 1899), "My love is like the red, red rose", 1886 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Henry) Walford Davies, Sir (1869 - 1941), "The Farewell", op. 3 (Six Songs) no. 1, published 1897 [ voice and piano ], London : Novello, Ewer, & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paulo Florence (1864 - 1949), "My love is like a red red rose", 1926, published 1926 [ voice and piano ], from Cinco canções internacionais, no. 4, São Paulo: Ed. do autor [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Foote (1853 - 1937), "O my luve's like a red, red rose", op. 13 (Five songs) no. 1, published 1887, copyright © 1887 [ voice and piano ], Boston, Schmidt [sung text checked 1 time]
- by John Linton Gardner (1917 - 2011), "My luve is like a red, red rose", op. 213 no. 3, published 1993 [ mixed chorus and orchestra ], from A Burns Sequence, no. 3, London : Oxford University Press [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernest Gold (1921 - 1999), "A red, red rose" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford (1910 - 1998), "A red, red rose" [ voice and piano ], from Five Burns Songs, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Jeffreys (1927 - 2010), "The farewell" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John G. Koch (b. 1928), "O my Luve's like a red, red rose" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman (b. 1949), "A red, red rose", op. 47 [ voice a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by James MacMillan (b. 1959), "So deep" [ soli and chorus ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Humphrey Procter-Gregg (1895 - 1980), "O my Luve's like a red, red rose" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Clara Kathleen Rogers (1844 - 1931), "O my luve's like a red, red rose" [ four-part chorus and piano? ], from Three Four-Part Songs, no. 2, unpublished [sung text not yet checked]
- by Francis George Scott (1880 - 1958), "My luve is like a red, red rose", published 1936 [ baritone and piano ], from Scottish Lyrics, Book 4, no. 12, Bayley & Ferguson; confirmed with Songs of Francis George Scott, selected and edited by Neil Mackay, Roberton Publications, Aylesbury, 1980, page 10 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Arthur Somervell, Sir (1863 - 1937), "A red, red rose", 1885, published 1886 [ voice and piano ], from Six Songs by Robert Burns, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by George Theophilus Walker (b. 1922), "A red, red rose" [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in Czech (Čeština), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Zdenko Antonín Václav Fibich.
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- Also set in Danish (Dansk), a translation by Emil Aarestrup (1800 - 1856) , "O, du er lig en Rose rød" ; composed by Leopold Rosenfeld.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Wilhelm Christoph Leonhard Gerhard (1780 - 1858) , "Rothes Röslein" ; composed by Gustav Eggers, Alexander Fesca, Bruno Oscar Klein, Heinrich von Sahr, Robert Schumann.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Friedrich Niggli (1875 - 1959) ; composed by Friedrich Niggli.
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Carl Bohm, Franciscus Wilhelmus Bouman, Rudolf Buck, George Henschel, Eugène Jámbor, Robert Schwalm, Emil Weeber, Jakob Wolff.
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Ferdinand Freiligrath (1810 - 1876) , no title, appears in Gedichte, in Robert Burns. Elf Lieder [later 13 Lieder], no. 6[8], first published 1836 ; composed by Robert Franz, Peter Gast, Karl Grammann, Ferdinand Gumbert, O. Heller, Carl Hohfeld, Eduard Lassen, Heinrich August Marschner, Elise Schmezer, Malvina Schnorr von Carolsfeld.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by (Johann) Philipp Kaufmann (1802 - 1846) , first published 1830 ; composed by Carl Ferdinand Konradin, Joseph Rheinberger.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Jan Karol Gall, Louis Rée.
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Gustav Flügel, Ernst Paul Flügel.
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Paul Heinze (1858 - 1912) , no title ; composed by Albert Fuchs.
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Samuil Yakovlevich Marschak (1887 - 1964) , "Любовь" ; composed by Georgiy Vasil'yevich Sviridov.
- Also set in Swedish (Svenska), a translation by Magnus Gustaf Retzius (1842 - 1919) , "Min vän är lik den röda ros", written 1872 ; composed by Oscar Blom.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- SWG Swiss German (Schwizerdütsch) (August Corrodi) , "Min schatz ist wienes Röseli", first published 1870
- CZE Czech (Čeština) (Josef Václav Sládek) , "Má milá jest jak růžička"
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GRE Greek (Ελληνικά) [singable] (Christakis Poumbouris) , "Η π’ αγαπώ ’ναι ρόδο ροζ", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- HUN Hungarian (Magyar) (József Lévay) , "Szerelmem, mint piros rózsa..."
- IRI Irish (Gaelic) [singable] (Gabriel Rosenstock) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Iain Sneddon [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 106
O, du er lig en Eose rød, En Eose rød, min egen Glut! O, du er lig en Melodi, Sødt sungen til en Spaniers Luth! Saa smuk som du, saa smuk som du, Ak, saa forliebt er jeg! Til alle Søer er tørret ud, Saalænge elsker jeg dig. Til alle Søer er tørret ud, Til Klipperne smelte hen, Saalænge vil jeg elske dig, Saalænge, min Hjertensven! Og far nu vel og lev nu vel Og græd ikke blot, men smil! Jeg kommer igjen, jeg kommer igjen, Om det var titusind Mil.
Text Authorship:
- by Emil Aarestrup (1800 - 1856), "O, du er lig en Rose rød" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Scottish (Scots) by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796)
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Leopold Rosenfeld (1849 - 1909), "O, du er lig en Rose rød", op. 32 no. 7, published <<1917. [voice and piano] [text not verified]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2016-02-24
Line count: 16
Word count: 92