Grown and Flown
First Performance
May 2022
Ensemble
Soprano, Violin, Piano
Duration
3 minutes
Program Notes
Grown and Flown, by Christina Rossetti, goes through the phases of losing love. The speaker reflects on the times that she had love, and how her heart cannot handle all of the feelings that it has now that her love is gone. She then wonders if she will ever be able to love again, but in the end she only has room left for bitterness.
Jaclyn Breeze, 2022
Song by Christina Rossetti
I loved my love from green of Spring
Until sere Autum's fall;
But now that leaves are withering
How should one love at all?
One heart's too small
For hunger, cold, love, everything.
I loved my love on sunny days
Until late Summer's wane;
But now that frost begins to glaze,
How should one love again?
Nay, love and pain
Walk wide apart in diverse ways.
I loved my love - alas to see
That this should be, alas!
I thought that this could scarcely be,
Yet it has come to pass:
Sweet sweet love was,
Now bitter bitter grown to me.
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