Thine eyes still shined for me, Though far I lonely roved the land or sea: As I behold yon evening star, Which yet beholds not me. This morn I climbed the misty hill, And roamed the pastures through; How danced thy form before my path Amidst the deep-eyed dew! When the redbird spread his sable wing, And showed his side of flame; When the rosebud ripened to the rose, In both I read thy name.
English Lyrics, Fourth Set
by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (1848 - 1918)
1. Thine eyes still shined for me  [sung text checked 1 time]
Authorship:
- by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), "Thine eyes still shined", appears in Poems, first published 1847
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Researcher for this page: Ted Perry2. When lovers meet again  [sung text checked 1 time]
When lovers meet again, Then obscure ways grow plain, Then crooked paths are straight and rough places smooth, Then weariness and weight Have wings as wide as love. For night is as the day; Love smiles love's tears away And all hard paths are smooth, When lovers meet again. When lovers kiss again The dry bough blossoms then; Then rolls away the stone; Earth's bitterness is balm; Light through the night is blown; Peace rocks the world in calm; And the ebbing tide is full: For two souls are one soul, And obscrue ways grow plain, When lovers meet again.
Authorship:
- by Langdon Elwyn Mitchell (1862 - 1935), "When lovers meet again", from Poems, first published 1894
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Researcher for this page: John Fowler3. When we two parted  [sung text not yet checked]
When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted To sever for years, Pale grew thy cheek and cold, Colder thy kiss; Truly that hour foretold Sorrow to this. The dew of the morning Sunk chill on my brow -- It felt like the warning Of what I feel now. Thy vows are all broken, And light is thy fame; I hear thy name spoken, And share in its shame. They name thee before me, A knell to mine ear; A shudder comes o'er me -- Why wert thou so dear? They know not I knew thee, Who knew thee too well:-- Long, long shall I rue thee, Too deeply to tell. In secret we met -- In silence I grieve That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? -- With silence and tears.
Authorship:
- by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824), "When we two parted", appears in Poems, first published 1816
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CHI Chinese (中文) (Mei Foong Ang) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Alexis Paulin Pâris)
4. Weep you no more  [sung text checked 1 time]
Weep you no more, sad fountains; What need [you]1 flow so fast? Look how the snowy mountains Heaven's sun doth gently waste! But my sun's heavenly eyes View not your weeping, That now lies sleeping, [Softly now, softly]2 lies Sleeping. Sleep is a reconciling, A rest that peace begets; Doth not the sun rise smiling When fair at [e'en]3 he sets? Rest you, then, rest, sad eyes! Melt not in weeping, While she lies sleeping, [Softly now, softly]2 lies Sleeping.
Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author ( 16th century )
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Julia Hamann) , "Tränen", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
1 van Dieren: "ye"
2 van Dieren, Holst, Moeran: "Softly, now softly"
3 Parry: "eve"; Moeran, Quilter, van Dieren: "even"; Holst: "ev'n"
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5. There be none of Beauty's daughters  [sung text not yet checked]
There be none of Beauty's daughters With a magic like thee; And like music on the waters Is thy sweet voice to me: When, as if its sound were causing The [charmèd]1 ocean's pausing, The waves lie still and gleaming, And the lull'd winds seem dreaming: And the midnight moon is weaving Her bright chain o'er the deep; Whose breast is gently heaving As an infant's asleep: So the spirit bows before thee, To listen and adore thee; With a full but soft emotion, Like the swell of Summer's ocean.
Authorship:
- by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824), "Stanzas for music", appears in Poems, first published 1816
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- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Sloky pro hudbu"
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Alexis Paulin Pâris) , "Stances à mettre en musique"
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Fra tutte le più belle", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
1 Mendelssohn: "charm'd"
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6. Bright star  [sung text not yet checked]
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art - Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains, and the moors - No - yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake forever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever - or else swoon to death.
Authorship:
- by John Keats (1795 - 1821), no title, written 1819?
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Richard Flatter) , "Letztes Sonett", appears in Die Fähre, Englische Lyrik aus fünf Jahrhunderten, first published 1936
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Lucente stella, esser potessi come te costante", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]