"I Wore Your Roses Yesterday" (1879)
Opus 29, No. 2, from FOUR SONGS
Words by Celia Thaxter
Music by John Knowles Paine, 1839-1906

Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co., 45 Washington St.
New York: C. M. Ditson & Co.
Chicago: Lyon & Healy
Philadelphia: J. E. Ditson & Co.
New Orleans: L. Grunewald
San Francisco: Sherman, Hyde & Co.
Detroit: C. J. Whitney & Co.
Plate No. 47115
[Source:
CALL NUMBER
M2.3.U6A44
PART OF
American 19th-century sheet music. Copyright deposits, 1870-1885 
REPOSITORY
Library of Congress. Music Division. 
DIGITAL ID
sm1879 07633 urn:hdl:loc.music/sm1879.07633 
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/sm1879.07633]

1.
I wore your roses yesterday: 
About this light robe’s folds of white, 
Wherein their gathered sweetness lay,.
Still clings their  perfume, perfume of delight.
And all in vain the warm wind sweeps 
Thosealry folds like vapor fine, 
Among them still the oder sleeps, 
And haunts me with a dream divine, a dream divine.

2. So be my heart yourmem’ry clings, 
So sweet, as rich, so delicate;
Eternal summertime it brings, 
Defying all the storms of fate, 
Defying all the storms of fate;
A power to turn the darkness bright, 
A power to turn the darkness bright 
Till life with matchless beauty glows;
Each moment touched with tender light, 
And ev’ry thought of you a rose!
And ev’ry thought of you, ev’ry thought of you a rose!