Too late for love
Music: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912) · Words: Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)
"Too late for love, too late for joy,
Too late, too late!
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The words
"Too late for love, too late for joy,
Too late, too late!
You loitered on the way too long,
You trifled at the gate:
Th'enchanted dove upon her branch Died
without a mate;
Th'enchanted princess in her tower Slept,
died, behind the grate;
Her heart was starving all this while You made
it wait,
you made it wait."
"Ten years ago, five years ago,
One year ago, E'en then you had arrived in
time, Though somewhat slow;
Then you had known her living face Which now
you cannot know.
The frozen fountains would have leaped,
The buds gone on to blow,
The warm south wind would have awaked,
To melt the snow,
To melt the snow."
"You should have wept her yesterday,
Wasting upon her bed: But wherefore,
wherefore, should you weep today That she is
dead? Lo, we who love, weep not today,
But crown her royal head. Let be these poppies
that we strew, Your roses are too red:
Let be these poppies, not for you Cut down and
spread."
"You should have wept her yesterday."
About this song
- Music
- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912) (dates as OpenScore states them)
- Words
- Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894) (dates as LiederNet Archive states them)
- Language
- English, as its source states it
- First published
- in or before 1906, as IMSLP states it
- Length
- 3:43
- Its source files it as
- 6 Sorrow Songs, Op.57
- The score
- OpenScore Lieder Corpus; CC0 1.0, as its source states it. OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
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