Phyllis inamorata (Ernest John Moeran)

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• (Posted 2024-04-06)  CPDL #80020:         

Editor: Ian Haslam (submitted 2024-04-06).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 79 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Phyllis inamorata
Composer: Ernest John Moeran
Lyricist: Lancelot Andrewes^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1939
Description: Originally published by Novello and Co Ltd.

Original text and translations

English text

Come, be my valentine!
I’ll gather eglantine,
Cowslips and sops-in-wine,
With fragrant roses.
Down by thy Phillis sit,
She will white lilies get,
And daffadilies fit
To make thee posies.
I have a milk-white lamb,
New-taken from the dam,
It comes where’er I am
When I call ‘Willy:’
I have a wanton kid
Under my apron hid,
A colt that ne’er was rid,
A pretty filly.
I bear in sign of love
A sparrow in my glove,
And in my breast a dove,
This shall all be thine:
Besides of sheep a flock,
Which yieldeth many a lock,
And this shall be thy stock:
Come be my valentine!