by Mathilde Blind (1841 - 1896)
You make the sunshine of my heart
Language: English
You make the sunshine of my heart And its tempestuous shower; Sometimes the thought of you is like A lilac bush in flower, Yea, honey-sweet as hives in May. And then the pang of it will strike My bosom with a fiery smart, As though love's deeply planted dart Drained all its life away. My thoughts hum round you, Dear, like bees About a bank of thyme, Or round the yellow blossoms of The heavy-scented lime. Ah, sweeter you than honeydew, Yet dark the ways of love, For it has robbed my soul of peace, And marred my life and turned heart's-ease Into funereal rue.
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Confirmed with A Selection from the Poems of Mathilde Blind, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1897, page 95.
Authorship:
- by Mathilde Blind (1841 - 1896), no title, appears in Love in Exile, no. 23 [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 Maude Valérie White (1855 - 1937), "The sunshine of my heart", published 1892 [ voice and piano ], London: E. Ashdown [sung text not yet checked]
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