Historic Sheet Music Collection

Authors

Roger Quilter

Document Type

Score

Publication Date

1904

Comments

Sung by Mr.John MacCormack
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
Song
The Words by Tennyson
The Music by Roger Quilter
Price 50 Cents Nett

Now sleeps the crimson petal,
Now the white;
Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;
Nor winks the gold fin in porph’ry font:
The firefly wakens:
Wakens though with me.
Now folds the lily all her sweetness up,
And slips into the bosom of the lake:
So fold thyself my dearest, thou, and slip,
Slip into my bosom and be lost,
Be lost in me.

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