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