GIA Publications Love Knows Not 'Mine' or 'Thine' - Rossetti/Rogers - SATB

• Composer/Author: ROGERS, W (RAO)
• Instrumentation: SATB ACCOMP
• Model # G-9958

Lyrics: Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
Music: Wayland Rogers
Format: Choral Octavo
Voicing: SATB with piano accompaniment

The English Romantic poet, Christina Rossetti, is chiefly known for her mystic religious lyrics. Her limited number of love poems are mostly of an unhappy nature, rather like objective expressions of happiness denied. A certain steely stoicism within her caused her to turn away from love twice in her lifetime with two separate men. There is no evidence of resolute refusal of love in this poem, however. Here she profusely proclaims her deep love for another.

Wayland Rogers has set the last five lines of "I Loved You First" to music. The setting is an excerpt from his song cycle, I-Thou , which was commissioned and premiered by Fourth Coast Ensemble in Chicago in 2018.