by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)
In visions of the dark night
Language: English
In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted. Ah! what is not a dream by day To him whose eyes are cast On things around him with a ray Turned back upon the past? That holy dream- that holy dream, While all the world were chiding, Hath cheered me as a lovely beam A lonely spirit guiding. What though that light, thro' storm and night, So trembled from afar- What could there be more purely bright In Truth's day-star?
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- by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), "A dream", appears in Tamerlane and Other Poems, first published 1827 [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 John Habash , "A dream", published 1964 [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Myra Kinney Van Höveln-Carpé , "In Visions", op. 57c, published 1922 [voice and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
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- Also set in English, a translation by Edward Agate FRE ; composed by Marie-Joseph-Alexandre Déodat de Séverac.
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- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Stéphane Mallarmé (1842 - 1898) ; composed by Marie-Joseph-Alexandre Déodat de Séverac.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , "Der Traum" FRE ; composed by Henriette Fahrbach.
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