A lake and a fairy boat To sail in the moonlight clear, - And merrily we would float From the dragons that watch us here! Thy gown should be snow-white silk, And strings of orient pearls, Like [gossamers]1 dipp'd in milk, Should twine with thy raven curls! Red rubies should deck thy hands, And diamonds should be thy dow'r - But Fairies have broke their wands, And wishing has lost its pow'r!
Two Songs
by Peter Warlock (1894 - 1930)
1. A lake and a fairy boat  [sung text checked 1 time]
Language: English
Authorship:
- by Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845), "Song: For music", appears in The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur, and Other Poems, first published 1827
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Warlock: "gossamer"
Researcher for this page: David K. Smythe
2. Music, when soft voices die  [sung text checked 1 time]
Language: English
Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heaped for the belovèd's bed; And so [thy]1 thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.
Authorship:
- by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822), "To ----", appears in Posthumous Poems, first published 1824
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Sloky", Prague, J. Otto, first published 1901
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Martin Stock) , "Musik, wenn leise Stimmen ersterben ...", copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
1 Bridge: "my"
Researcher for this page: Ted Perry
Total word count: 118