by Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933)
When beauty grows too great to bear
Language: English
When beauty grows too great to bear How shall I ease me of its ache, For beauty more than bitterness Makes the heart break. Now while I watch the dreaming sea With isles like flowers against her breast, Only one voice in all the world Could give me rest.
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Authorship:
- by Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933), "Capri", appears in Rivers to the Sea, in Vignettes Overseas, no. 4, first published 1915 [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 Alice Barnett (1886 - 1975), "Song at Capri", published 1923 [ voice and piano ], from Three Songs of Musing [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Woods Duke (1899 - 1984), "Capri", 1947, published 1949 [ medium voice or high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mabel Wood Hill (1870 - 1954), "A Song at Capri", published 1919 [ voice and piano ], from Four Poems by Sara Teasdale [sung text not yet checked]
- by Wintter Haynes Watts (1884 - 1962), "Capri", published 1919 [ high voice, piano ], from Vignettes Overseas, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2004-12-29
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Word count: 49