by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)
I dreamt that she sat by my head
Language: English
I dreamt that she sat by my head, tenderly ruffling my hair with her fingers, playing the melody of her touch. I looked at her face and struggled with my tears, till the agony of unspoken words burst my sleep like a bubble. I sat up and saw the glow of the Milky Way above my window, like a world of silence on fire, and I wondered if at this moment she had a dream that rhymed with mine.
Authorship:
- by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), appears in Lover's Gift and Crossing, no. 28, first published 1918 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Raymond Hanson (1913 - 1976), "I dreamt that she sat by my head", op. 3 (1935). [medium voice and piano] [text not verified]
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This text was added to the website: 2010-11-05
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Word count: 79