"Roses for the Flush of Youth" [Henry Clough-Leighter]

"Roses for the Flush of Youth" [Henry Clough-Leighter]

First line of lyrics: Oh roses for the flush of youth

Part of: "Seven Songs"

Clough-Leighter, Henry; music (American, 1874-1956)

Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)

1914 [publication]

Boston: Boston Music Co.

genre: song cycle|song

solo: voice

instrumentation: piano

origin: United States

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Song" ("Oh roses for the flush of youth")

Place in the larger work: The second song of seven in a song cycle called "Seven Songs," which includes 1. "Love's Magnificat" (Arthur Symons): 2. "Roses for the Flush of Youth" (Christina Rossetti); 3. "The Secret" (F.L. Knowles); 4. "I tell you over and over" (Charles Hanson Towne); 5. "Oh what comes over the Sea" (Christina Rossetti); 6. "Requiescat" (Oscar Wilde); 7. "Ah, dear one" (Dante Gabriel Rossetti).

Format 1: musical score

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4726

Reference: Gooch, Bryan N.S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.

Other data reference(s): "Seven Songs." WorldCat, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/498079761. Accessed 26 May 2022.

Cataloguer: Megan McKague, University of Ottawa

Record: CRM-songohroses-clough-leighter

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