What is 'Come Into The Garden Maud' - it is a parlour song by Tennyson.

The words were extracted from Tennyson's epic Maud presumably by the composer of the song, one Michael William Balfe. For the full text begin Here - you'll find the Come Into the Garden sequence at line 850. Seems he wrote it at Brancepeth Castle, in Country Durham - one of my own former residences...

As for the song, I have sung it myself in Folk Clubs very much as a Folk Song (though not, of course, as a Traditional Song which is a very different beast). Parlour Songs, it would seem, can be Folk Songs too.