# Too late for love

- Music: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (died 1912)
- Words: Christina Georgina Rossetti (died 1894)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6189616

## 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."  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).