Four songs

Song Cycle by Julius Hijman (1901 - 1969)

Old song

Language: English 
Thy absence overflows the rose,
From ev'ry petal gleam
Such words as it were vain to close,
Such tears as crowd the dream.

So eyes that mind thee fair and gone,
Bemused at waking, spend
On skies that gild thy remote dawn
More hopes than here attend.

The burden of the rose will fade
Sped in the spectrum's kiss,
But here the thorn in sharpened shade
Weathers all loneliness.

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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

Set by Julius Hijman (1901 - 1969), 1942 [ voice and piano ]
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
Total word count: 69