Wanting is -- what? Summer redundant, Blueness abundant, -- Where is the blot? Beamy the world, yet a blank all the same, -- Framework which waits for a picture to frame: What of the leafage, what of the flower? Roses embowering with nought they embower! Come then, complete incompletion, O comer, Pant through the blueness, perfect the summer! Breathe but one breath Rose-beauty above. And all that was death Grows life, grows love, Grows love!
Dramatic Lyrics Set III
Song Cycle by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (1868 - 1946)
1. Wanting is ‑‑ what?  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Authorship:
- by Robert Browning (1812 - 1889), appears in Jocoseria, Prologue, first published 1883
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]2. Never the time and the place  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Never the time and the place And the loved one all together! This path -- how soft to pace! This May -- what magic weather! Where is the loved one's face? In a dream that loved one's face meets mine, But the house is narrow, the place is bleak Where, outside, rain and wind combine With a furtive ear, if I strive to speak, With a hostile eye at my flushing cheek, With a malice that marks each word, each sign! O enemy sly and serpentine, Uncoil thee from the waking man! Do I hold the Past Thus firm and fast Yet doubt if the Future hold I can? This path so soft to pace shall lead Through the magic of May to herself indeed! Or narrow if needs the house must be, Outside are the storms and strangers: we -- Oh, close, safe, warm, sleep I and she, I and she.
Authorship:
- by Robert Browning (1812 - 1889), "Never the time and the place", appears in Jocoseria, first published 1883
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