With sighs, sweet rose (John Wall Callcott)

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• (Posted 2023-09-12)  CPDL #75360: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2023-09-12).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 258 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. Prepared from the primary source.

• (Posted 2021-09-27)  CPDL #65907:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2021-09-27).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 188 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcription of Novello's edition.

• (Posted 2009-06-07)  CPDL #19602:        (Sibelius 5)

Editor: Jonathan Goodliffe (submitted 2009-06-07).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 82 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Based upon Horsley's edition

General Information

Title: With sighs, sweet rose
Composer: John Wall Callcott
Lyricist: Elizabeth Jane Madden

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: ATTB
Genre: Secular, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella (originally). Piano accompaniment added by William Horsley (1774-1858).

First published: 1800 (printed for C. Knyett)
    2nd published: 1824 Horsley (memorial edition)
    3rd published: 1853 Novello's Glee Hive no.64
Description: A four part glee showing the influence of Haydn and Mozart. The alto part was composed for the singer and composer William Knyvett

Original text and translations

English text

With sighs, sweet rose, I mark thy faded form,
So late bedecked with many a flow'ret gay;
Thy tender frame has shrunk beneath the storm,
And all thy charms are verging to decay.
Yet whilst I mourn, loved plant, thy early doom,
Poor hapless victim of the pitying shower,
Reflection whispers, then again shall bloom,
And joyful feel the sun's reviving power;
Returning spring thy beauties shall renew,
Again the breeze shall waft thy sweets along;
Thy fragrant flowers, enchanting to the view,
Shall live for ever in the poet's song;
Whilst I, with unavailing tears, deplore,
Dear happy hours that can return no more.