Songs

Now sleeps the crimson petal

by Roger Quilter

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Text

Now sleeps the crimson petal
English source: Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;
Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;
Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font:
The fire-fly wakens: waken thou 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
Into my bosom and be lost in me.

Composer

Roger Quilter

Roger Quilter

Roger Cuthbert Quilter was an English composer, known particularly for his songs.

Poet

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alfred, Lord Tennyson was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets. Read some of his work here, on Poetry Foundation.

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