by (Edward) Robert Bulwer-Lytton (1831 - 1891), as Owen Meredith
Omens and Oracles
Language: English
Phantoms of the future, spectres of the past, In the wakeful night came round me sighing crying "Fool beware, Fool beware!" Check the feeling o'er thee stealing, Let thy first love be thy last, Or if love again thou must at least this fatal love forbear," Amara! Amara! Amara! Now the dark breaks, now the lark wakes; Now the voices fleet away, Now the breeze about the blossom; Now the ripple in the reed; Beams and buds and birds begin to sing and say, "Love her for she loves thee." And I know not which to heed. O, cara amara amara.
Author confirmed with Crawford and Wierzbicki, Music in the United States of America, vol. 12, Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, American Musicological Society, 2004, p. 125
Authorship:
- by (Edward) Robert Bulwer-Lytton (1831 - 1891), as Owen Meredith [author's text not yet checked 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 Charles Edward Ives (1874 - 1954), "Omens and Oracles", from Sentimental Ballads, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
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