Three Songs with Piano Accompaniment

Song Cycle by Mary Grant Carmichael (1851 - 1935)

1. Stay me no more  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
Stay me no more; the flowers have ceased to blow,
    The frost begun;
Stay me no more; I will arise and go,
    My dream is done.

My feet are set upon a sterner way,
    And I must on;
Love, thou has dwelt with me a summer day,
    Now, Love, begone.

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Confirmed with the anthology Latter-day lyrics: being poems of sentiment and reflection by living writers, Kohler Collection of British Poetry, London: Chatto & Windus, 1878.


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2. Sweetheart, sigh no more  [sung text not yet checked]

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It was with doubt and trembling 
I whispered in her ear.
Go, take her answer, bird-on-bough,
That all the world may hear --
Sweetheart, sigh no more!

Sing it, sing it, tawny throat,
Upon the wayside tree,
How fair she is, how true she is,
How dear she is to me --
Sweetheart, sigh no more!

Sing it, sing it, tawny throat, 
And through the summer long
The winds among the clover-tops
And brooks, for all their silvery stops,
Shall envy you the song --
Sweetheart, sigh no more!

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3. Mountain‑hymn to the dawn

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Total word count: 136