Three Christina Rossetti Songs - Stalnaker, J. G.

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"Settings of three Christina Rossetti poems composed by J. G. Stalnaker"

◈ Genre → Sacred songs

♯ Key D minor

⁄ Time Signature 4/4

♬ Voicing → SATB|SATB/SSATBB/SATB

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate

↕ Range F2 – F#5

¶ Language → English

Measures 122

Texture mixed texture

Parts 6

Instruments A cappella

Pages 6

CPDL # 49812

Editor J. G. Stalnaker

Posted 2018-05-24

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

Soprano I

D4 – F#5

Soprano II

C4 – B4

Soprano Alto

G3 – F5

Tenor Bass

F2 – E4

Bass I

D3 – C#4

Bass II

F2 – A3

¶Lyrics / Text

I. '''A Rose Plant in Jericho''' At morn I plucked a rose and gave it Thee, A rose of joy and happy love and peace, A rose with scarce a thorn: But in the chillness of a second morn My rose bush drooped, and all its gay increase Was but one thorn that wounded me. I plucked the thorn and offered it to Thee; And for my thorn Thou gavest love and peace, Not joy this mortal morn: If Thou hast given much treasure for a thorn, Wilt thou not give me for my rose increase Of gladness, and all sweets to me? My thorny rose, my love and pain, to Thee I offer; and I set my heart in peace, And rest upon my thorn: For verily I think tomorrow morn Shall bring me Paradise, my gift's increase, Yea, give Thy very Self to me II. '''A Birthday''' My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an appletree Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea; My heart is gladder than all these Because my love is come, my love is come to me. Raise me a dais of silk and down; Hang it with vair and purple dyes; Carve it in doves and pomegranates, And peacocks with a hundred eyes; Work it in gold and silver grapes, In leaves and silver fleursdelys; Because the birthday of my life is come, My love is come to me. III. '''Still (Dost Thou Not Care?)''' ''I love thee'' ''I love thee here'' ''I love thee here or there,'' ''I will accept thy broken heart, lie still.'' I love and love not: Lord, it breaks my heart To love and not to love. It breaks my heart breaks my heart To love and not to love. Thou veiled within Thy glory, glory, veiled within Thy glory, gone apart Into Thy shrine, which is above, which is above, Dost Thou not love me, Lord, or care For this mine ill? ''I love thee'' ''I love thee here'' ''I love thee here or there,'' ''I will accept thy broken heart, lie still.''