Three Songs , opus 28

by Clara Kathleen Rogers (1844 - 1931)

1. I have a more than friend [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English

[...]
"I have more than a friend 
Across the mountains dim:
No other's voice is soft to me,
Unless it nameth him."
Margret, Margret.

"Though louder beats my heart,
I know his tread again,
And his fair plume aye, unless turned away,
For the tears do blind me then:
We brake no gold, a sign
Of stronger faith to be,
But I wear his last look in my soul,
Which said, I love but thee!"
Margret, Margret.

Text Authorship:

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861), no title, appears in The Romaunt of Margret, from stanzas 21 and 22

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First published in New Monthly Magazine, July 1836.

2. Ah, love, but a day [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English

Ah, Love, but a day,
And the world has changed!
The sun's away,
And the bird estranged;
The wind has dropped, 
And the sky's deranged;
Summer has stopped.

Look in my eyes!
Wilt thou change too?
Should I fear surprise?
Shall I find aught new 
In the old and dear,
In the good and true,
With the changing year?

Thou art a man,
But I am thy love.
For the lake, its swan;
For the dell, its dove;
And for thee — (oh, haste!)
Me, to bend above,
Me, to hold embraced.

Text Authorship:

by Robert Browning (1812 - 1889), no title, appears in James Lee's Wife

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3. Under a Cherry Tree [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English

O Cherry Tree! O Cherry Tree!
That Spring-time was so fair:
Thy boughs were a white heaven to me,
For He was there.

O Cherry Tree, glad Cherry Tree!
He said my red lips were
Richer than thy ripe fruit: ah me!
He kiss'd me there.

O Cherry Tree, sad Cherry Tree!
Now are thy branches bare:
The leafless boughs repeat to me --
He is not there.

Text Authorship:

by William James Linton (1812 - 1897), "Under a Cherry Tree"

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