by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
Hope is like a harebell trembling from...
Language: English
Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth, Love is like a rose the joy of all the earth; Faith is like a lily lifted high and white, Love is like a lovely rose the world's delight; Harebells and sweet lilies show a thornless growth, But the rose with all its thorns excels them both.
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Text Authorship:
- by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), no title, appears in Sing-song: a nursery rhyme book, first published 1872 [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 Alys Eliza Bentley , "The World's Delight", published 1923 [ unaccompanied voice ], in the collection The Song Series, book 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Frederick Bridge (1844 - 1924), "Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth", published 1916 [ voice and piano ], from Kookoorookoo and other songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jane Morris , "Flower thoughts", published 1910 [ chorus and piano ], in the collection Song Reader [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Somervell, Sir (1863 - 1937), "Hope is like a harebell", published 1903 [ SATB chorus and piano ], from Wind Flowers, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Constance Virtue , "Love is like the rose", published << 1940 [ voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2006-01-19
Line count: 6
Word count: 56