Suscipe flos florem Lyrics

Suscipe flos florem
Quia flos designat amorem
Illo de flore
Nimio sum captus amore
Hunc florem flora
Dulcissima semper odora
Nam velut aurora
Fiet tua forma decora

Florem flora vide
Quem dum videas mihi ride
Florem flora tene
Tua vox cantus philomene

Oscula des flori
Rubeo flos convenit ori
Flos in pictura
Non est flos immo figura
Qui pingit florem
Non pigit floris odorem
Oscula des flori
Rubeo flos convenit ori

ENGLISH

Take thou this rose, o rose
Since love"s own flower it is
And by that rose
Thy lover captive is

Smell thou this rose, o rose
And know thyself as sweet
As dawn is sweet
Look at this rose, o rose
And looking laugh on me
And in thy laughter"s ring
The nightingale shall sing

Kiss thou this rose, o rose
That it may know
The scarlet of thy mouth

O rose, this painted rose
Is not the whole
Who pains the flower
Paints not its fragrant soul