Four songs , opus 26

by Alexander Frederic von Hessen (1863 - ?)

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?. There be none of Beauty's daughters [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English

There be none of Beauty's daughters
  With a magic like thee;
And like music on the waters
  Is thy sweet voice to me:
When, as if its sound were causing
The [charmèd]¹ ocean's pausing,
The waves lie still and gleaming,
And the lull'd winds seem dreaming:

And the midnight moon is weaving
  Her bright chain o'er the deep;
Whose breast is gently heaving
  As an infant's asleep:
So the spirit bows before thee,
To listen and adore thee;
With a full but soft emotion,
Like the swell of Summer's ocean.

Text Authorship:

by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824), "Stanzas for music", appears in Poems, first published 1816

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Sloky pro hudbu"
FRE French (Français) (Alexis Paulin Pâris) , "Stances à mettre en musique"

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¹ Mendelssohn: "charm'd"