by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
More white than whitest lilies far
Language: English
More white than whitest lilies far, Or snow, or whitest swans you are : More white than are the whitest creams, Or moonlight tinselling the streams : More white than pearls, or Juno's thigh, Or Pelops' arm of ivory. True, I confess, such whites as these May me delight, not fully please ; Till like Ixion's cloud you be White, warm, and soft to lie with me.
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Confirmed with Robert Herrick, The Hesperides and Noble Numbers Edited by Alfred Pollard. London 1898
Authorship:
- by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), "To Electra (I)", appears in The Hesperides, no. 105 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Geoffrey Bush (1920 - 1998), "To Electra", 1949 [ baritone and piano ], from Four Songs from Herrick's 'Hesperides', no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
Research team for this page: Bertram Kottmann , Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2011-01-23
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Word count: 67