The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, [the]1 time is going by, and I sleep alone.
The moon has set
Set by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (1868 - 1946), "The moon has set", from Sappho: Prelude and Nine Fragments, no. 5  [sung text checked 1 time]
Note: this setting is made up of several separate texts.
Authorship:
- by Henry Thornton Wharton (1846 - 1895), no title
Based on:
- a text in Aeolic Greek by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE), no title
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View original text (without footnotes)1 omitted by Bantock.
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I yearn and seek ...1
Authorship:
- by Henry Thornton Wharton (1846 - 1895), no title
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- a text in Aeolic Greek by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE)
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Bantock here adds: "I know not what to do -/ And I flutter like a child after her mother" (possibly from another fragment)
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[Now]1 Love masters my limbs and shakes me, fatal creature, bitter-sweet.
Authorship:
- by Henry Thornton Wharton (1846 - 1895), no title
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- a text in Aeolic Greek by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE)
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Bantock: "For"
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[Now Eros]1 shakes my soul, a wind on the mountain falling on the oaks.
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- by Henry Thornton Wharton (1846 - 1895), no title
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- a text in Aeolic Greek by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE), no title
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Bantock: "Yea, Eros"
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Alas! I shall be ever maiden
Authorship:
- by Helen Maude Francesca Bantock, née von Schweitzer (1868 - 1961)
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- a text in Aeolic Greek by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE)
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]Neither honey nor bee for me.
Authorship:
- by Henry Thornton Wharton (1846 - 1895)
Based on:
- a text in Aeolic Greek by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE)
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]