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Two Songs

by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875 - 1912)

1. A lovely little dream  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
  From groves of spice, 
  O'er field or rice,
Athwart the lotus stream,
  I bring [for]1 you, 
  Aglint with dew,
A [little lovely]2 dream.

  Sweet, shut your eyes. 
  The wild fire-flies
Dance through the fairy neem;
  From poppy-bole
  For you I stole
A [little lovely]2 dream.

  Dear eyes, good-night,
  In golden light
The stars around you gleam;
  On you I press,
  With soft caress,
A [little lovely]2 dream.

Text Authorship:

  • by Sarojini Naidu (1879 - 1949), "Cradle song", appears in The Golden Threshold, in 1. Folk Songs

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Confirmed with Sarojini Naidu, The Golden Threshold, London: William Heinemann, 1905.

1 Ware: "to"
2 Ware: "lovely little"

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

2. A birthday  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
My heart is like a singing bird
  Whose nest is in a watered shoot;
My heart is like an apple tree
  Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
  That paddles in a [purple]1 sea;
My heart is gladder than all these
  Because my love is come to me.

Raise me a dais of [silk and down]2;
  Hang it with vair and purple dyes;
Carve it in doves and pomegranates,
  And peacocks with a hundred eyes;
Work it in gold and silver grapes,
  In leaves and [silver]3 fleur-de-lys;
Because the birthday of my life
  Is come, my love, is come to me.

Text Authorship:

  • by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), "A birthday"

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1 Aldridge, Hall: "halcyon"
2 Parry: "purple and gold"
3 Aldridge: "tiny"

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Total word count: 183
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