# I praise the tender flower

- Music: Charles Villiers Stanford (died 1924)
- Words: Robert Seymour Bridges (died 1930)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6205693

## The words

I praise the tender flower, That on a mournful  
day Bloomed in my garden bower,  
And made the winter gay.  
Its loveliness contented my heart tormented.  
I praise the gentle maid, whose happy voice  
and smile To confidence betrayed  
My doleful heart awhile:  
And gave my spirit deploring Fresh wings for  
soaring.  
The maid for very fear  
of love I durst not tell: The rose could never  
hear,  
though I bespake her well: So in my song I bind  
them For all to find them.  

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).