by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
Unmindful of the roses
Language: English
Unmindful of the roses, Unmindful of the thorn, A reaper tired reposes Among his gathered corn: So might I, till the morn! Cold as the cold Decembers, Past as the days that set, While only one remembers And all the rest forget, -- But one remembers yet.
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First published in Century, May 1884Text Authorship:
- by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), "One Sea-Side Grave" [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 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875 - 1912), "Unmindful of the roses", op. 57 no. 5 (1904), published 1904 [ alto and piano ], from Six Sorrow Songs, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ernest Bristow Farrar (1885 - 1918), "Memory", op. 2 no. 2, first performed 1909 [ soprano and piano ], from Songs of Memory, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hermann Frederic Löhr (1872 - 1943), "Unmindful of the roses", published 1909 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edwin Schneider , "Unmindful of the roses", published 1909 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2007-09-30
Line count: 10
Word count: 46