Sweet as the tender fragrance that survives, When martyred flowers breathe out their little lives, Sweet as a song that once consoled our pain, But never will be sung to us again, Is thy remembrance. Now the hour of rest Hath come to thee. Sleep, darling; it is best.
Ten Songs , opus 28
by Louis Adolphe Coerne (1870 - 1922)
1. Delia  [sung text not yet checked]
Text Authorship:
- by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), "Delia", appears in Kéramos and Other Poems, first published 1878
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- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Dolce come l'aroma tenero che rimane", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
2. Stay, stay at home, my heart  [sung text not yet checked]
Stay, stay at home, my heart, and rest; Home-keeping hearts are happiest, For those that wander they know not where Are full of trouble and full of care; To stay at home is best. Weary and homesick and distressed, They wander east, they wander west, And are baffled and beaten and blown about By the winds of the wilderness of doubt; To stay at home is best. Then stay at home, my heart, and rest; The bird is safest in its nest; O'er all that flutter their wings and fly A hawk is hovering in the sky; To stay at home is best.
Text Authorship:
- by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), "Song", appears in Kéramos and Other Poems, first published 1878
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3. The Arrow and the Song  [sung text not yet checked]
I shot an Arrow into the air It fell to earth I [knew]1 not where, For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breath'd a Song into the air It fell to earth, I [knew]1 not where. For who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of a song? Long, long afterward in an oak I found the Arrow still unbroke; And the Song from begining to end I found again in the heart of a friend.
Text Authorship:
- by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), "The Arrow and the Song", appears in The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems, first published 1846
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View original text (without footnotes)Note: parodied in the anonymous poem I stuck a pin into a chair.
1 Balfe, Emery: "know"4. The sound of the sea  [sung text not yet checked]
The sea awoke at midnight from its sleep, And round the pebbly beaches far and wide I heard the first wave of the rising tide Rush onward with uninterrupted sweep; A voice out of the silence of the deep, A sound mysteriously multiplied As of a cataract from the mountain's side, Or roar of winds upon a wooded steep. So comes to us at times, from the unknown And inaccessible solitudes of being, The rushing of the sea-tides of the soul; And inspirations, that we deem our own, Are some divine foreshadowing and foreseeing Of things beyond our reason or control.
Text Authorship:
- by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), "The sound of the sea", appears in Masque of Pandora and Other Poems, first published 1875
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