The maiden (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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CPDL #16961:       Sibelius 4

Editor: John Henry Fowler (added 2008-5-21).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 60 kbytes       Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: File Sizes: PDF: 60 KB, MIDI: 7 KB, Sib4: 43 KB.

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Title: The Maiden
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry

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

Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: 1909

Description: Number 6 of C. H. H. Parry's "English Lyrics" - Set 9. Lyrics by the poet Mary Elizabeth Coleridge - (1861-1907). Mary E. Coleridge was an English Poet, and the Great Niece of another English Poet - Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

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Original text and translations

English text

Who was this that came by the way,

When the flowers were springing ?

She bore in her hair the buds of May,

and a bird on her shoulder, singing

A girdle of the fairest green

Her slender waist confined,

And such a flame was never seen

As in her eyes there shined.

By the way she came, that way she went,

And took the sunlight with her.

The May of life shall all be spent

Ere she again come hither !

Lyrics: Mary Elizabeth Coleridge - (1861-1907)