The Bracelet
Music: Roger Quilter (1877–1953) · Words: Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
Why I tie about thy wrist,
Julia, this my silken twist,
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The words
Why I tie about thy wrist,
Julia, this my silken twist,
For what other reason is’t,
But to shew thee how in part Thou my pretty
captive art? But thy bondslave is my heart.
’Tis but silk that bindeth thee,
Knap the thread and thou art free
But ’tis otherwise with me:
I am bound, and fast bound so That from thee I
cannot go; If I could I would not so.
About this song
- Music
- Roger Quilter (1877–1953) (dates as OpenScore states them)
- Words
- Robert Herrick (1591–1674) (dates as LiederNet Archive states them)
- Language
- English, as its source states it
- First published
- in or before 1906, as IMSLP states it
- Length
- 1:40
- Its source files it as
- To Julia, Op.8
- The score
- OpenScore Lieder Corpus; CC0 1.0, as its source states it. OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
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