PW3027
Welcome, maids of honour
Music: Philip Wood, Words: Robert Herrick (1591 — 1674)
Voicing: SATB
Performance time approx: 1m 45s
Price code: B
Complexity:
This piece is part of the set "Three old English partsongs".
The set also includes:
Three Old English Partsongs were written in 2002 for Nova Cantica, a Cumbria based choir directed by Douglas Cook.
Welcome, Maids of Honour,
You doe bring [do]
In the Spring;
And wait upon her.
She has virgins many,
Fresh and faire;
Yet you are
More sweet than any.
Y'are the maiden posies, [you are]
And so grac'd
To be plac'd
’Fore damask roses. [before]
Yet though thus respected,
By and by
Ye doe lie,
Poore girls, neglected.
Robert Herrick