by Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
You groped your way across my room i'...
Language: English
You groped your way across my room i' the dear dark dead of night ; At each fresh step a stumble was : but, once your lamp alight, Easy and plain you walked again : so soon all wrong grew right! What lay on floor to trip your foot? Each object, late awry, Looked fitly placed, nor proved offence to footing free for why? The lamp showed all, discordant late, grown simple symmetry. Be love your light and trust your guide, with these explore my heart ! No obstacle to trip you then, strike hands and souls apart ! Since rooms and hearts are furnished so, light shows you, needs love start ?
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Text Authorship:
- by Robert Browning (1812 - 1889), "Shah Abbas", appears in Ferishtah's Fancies, no. 3, first published 1884 [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 Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (1868 - 1946), "Shah Abbas", 1903, published 1905 [tenor and orchestra], from Lyrics from "Ferishtah's Fancies", no. 3. [text not verified]
- by Alice Borton (fl. 1890), "Be love your light", c1884. [voice and piano] [text not verified]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-02-26
Line count: 9
Word count: 107