by (Joseph) Hilaire Belloc (1870 - 1953)
Lady, when your lovely head
Language: English
Lady, when your lovely head Droops to sink among the Dead, And the quiet places keep You that so divinely sleep; Then the dead shall blessed be With a new solemnity, For such Beauty, so descending, Pledges them that Death is ending. Sleep your fill but when you wake Dawn shall over Lethe break.
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Authorship:
- by (Joseph) Hilaire Belloc (1870 - 1953), "On a Sleeping Friend", appears in Sonnets and Verse (1923), first published 1923 [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 (Edward) Maurice Besly (1888 - 1945), "Dawn shall over Lethe break", published <<1940 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Colin Macleod Campbell (1890 - 1953), "Dawn shall over Lethe break", published 1925 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Chester Duncan (1913 - 2002), "On a Sleeping Friend", 1974 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Hageman (1881 - 1966), "Dawn shall over Lethe break", published 1934 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Archie James Potter (b. 1918), "Epigram on a Sleeping Friend", published 1952 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Three Songs of Hilaire Belloc [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-01-17
Line count: 10
Word count: 54