LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,159)
  • Text Authors (19,577)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,115)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882)

Three shadows
Language: English 
I looked and saw your eyes 
In the shadow of your hair, 
As a traveller sees the stream 
In the shadow of the wood; 
And I said, "My faint heart sighs, 
Ah me! to linger there, 
To drink deep and to dream 
In that sweet solitude."
I looked and saw your heart 
In the shadow of your eyes, 
As a seeker sees the gold 
In the shadow of the stream; 
And I said, "Ah me! what art 
Should win the immortal prize, 
Whose want must make life cold 
And Heaven a hollow dream?"
I looked and saw your love 
In the shadow of your heart, 
As a diver sees the pearl 
In the shadow of the sea; 
And I murmured, not above 
My breath, but all apart,-- 
"Ah! you can love, true girl, 
And is your love for me?" 

Text Authorship:

  • by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882), "Three shadows" [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 George John Bennett (1863 - 1930), "Three shadows", published 1886 [ voice and piano ], from Twelve Songs Set to Poems of Shelley and Rossetti, no. 12, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Arthur Somervell, Sir (1863 - 1937), "Three shadows", published c1915 [ voice and piano ], from Album of Seven Songs, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by George John Bennett.
      • Go to the text. [Note: the text is not in the database yet.]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2013-07-03
Line count: 24
Word count: 139

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris