O moonlight deep and tender, A year and more agone, Your mist of golden splendor Round my betrothal shone! O elm-leaves dark and dewy, The very same ye seem, The low wind trembles through ye, Ye murmur in my dream! O river, dim with distance, Flow thus forever by, A part of my existence Within your heart doth lie! O stars, ye saw our meeting, Two beings and one soul, Two hearts so madly beating To mingle and be whole! O happy night, deliver Her kisses back to me, Or keep them all, and give her A blisslul dream of me!
Two Songs for Medium Voice
by Roy Ewing Agnew (1893 - 1944)
1. O moonlight deep and tender [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Text Authorship:
- by James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891), "Song", from Poems, first published 1844
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2. Beloved stoop down thro' the clinging dark
Language: English
Beloved stoop down thro' the clinging dark and comfort me. The faded flower lies mingled with the dust. And on the sea a lone seagull goes drifting by white-winged, white-winged but dead. Ah, fold me in your arms and shut out sea and land and sky, I would be lost merged utterly with thee. While floating by like ships at dusk so silently, cloud-clad, the white-winged dead.
Text Authorship:
- by Zora Cross (1890 - 1964)
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