Because your voice was at my side

Song Cycle by Ronald A. Beckett

Word count: 215

1. Because your voice was at my side [sung text not yet checked]

Because your voice was at my side 
 I gave him pain, 
Because within my hand I held 
  Your hand again. 

There is no word nor any sign 
 Can make amend 
He is a stranger to me now 
 Who was my friend.

Authorship

by James Joyce (1882 - 1941), no title, appears in Chamber Music, no. 17, first published 1907 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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

FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

2. Lean out of the window [sung text not yet checked]

Lean out of the window,
  Goldenhair,
I heard you singing
  A merry air.

My book is closed;
  I read no more,
Watching the fire dance
  On the floor.

I have left my book,
  I have left my room,
For I heard you singing
  Through the gloom,

Singing and singing
  A merry air.
Lean out of the window,
  Goldenhair.

Authorship

by James Joyce (1882 - 1941), appears in Chamber Music, no. 5, first published 1907 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

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

FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
IRI Irish (Gaelic) [singable] (Gabriel Rosenstock) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Ted Perry

3. My love is in a light attire [sung text not yet checked]

My love is in a light attire 
Among the apple-trees, 
Where the gay winds do most desire 
To run in companies. 

There, where the gay winds stay to woo 
The young leaves as they pass, 
My love goes slowly, bending to 
Her shadow on the grass; 

And where the sky's a pale blue cup 
Over the laughing land, 
My love goes lightly, holding up 
Her dress with dainty hand.

Authorship

by James Joyce (1882 - 1941), appears in Chamber Music, no. 7, first published 1907 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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Note: first published in Dana (August 1904) as "Song"

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

4. O cool is the valley now [sung text not yet checked]

O cool is the valley now 
  And there, love, will we go 
For many a choir is singing now 
  Where Love did sometime go. 

And hear you not the thrushes calling, 
  Calling us away? 
O cool and pleasant is the valley 
  And there, love, will we stay.

Authorship

by James Joyce (1882 - 1941), no title, appears in Chamber Music, no. 16, first published 1907 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]