Now sleeps the crimson petal (Roger Quilter)

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CPDL #17757:     

Contributor: University of Rochester (added 2008-07-30).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages,     Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Cross posting by Art Song Central - Edition in G Flat Major.

• CPDL #5064:

Editor: Anne Dubrofsky (added 2003-05-15).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 88 kbytes   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Now sleeps the crimson petal
Composer: Roger Quilter
Lyricist: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Soprano Solo
Genre: Secular, Art song

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

Published: 1904.

Description: The Art song is Number 4 in the Opus 3 published in 1905 by Boosey and Co..

External websites:

• Entry at Wikipedia for this composer.
• Entry at "Art Song Central" for this song cycle.
• Entry at the "Lied and Art Song Texts Page".

Original text and translations

English text

Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;

Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;

Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font:

The fire-fly wakens: waken thou with me.

Now folds the lily all her sweetness up,

And slips into the bosom of the lake:

So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip

Into my bosom and be lost in me.