Songs of Life and Love

Song Cycle by Helen Searles Westbrook (1889 - 1967 )

Invincible

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Set by Helen Searles Westbrook (1889 - 1967 ) [ voice and piano ]

Alabaster

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Like this alabaster box whose art
Is frail as a cassia-flower, is my heart,
Carven with delicate dreams and wrought
With many a subtle and exquisite thought.

Therein I treasure the spice and scent
Of rich and passionate memories blent
Like odours of cinnamon, sandal and clove,
Of song and sorrow and life and love.

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Set by Helen Searles Westbrook (1889 - 1967 ) [ soprano and piano ]

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


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Farewell

Language: English 
Bright shower of lambent butterflies,
Soft cloud of murmuring bees,
O fragile storm of sighing leaves
Adrift upon the breeze!

Wild birds with eager wings outspread
To seek an alien sky,
Sweet comrades of a [lyric]1 spring.
My little songs, good-bye!

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Confirmed with Sarojini Naidu, The Bird of Time: Songs of Life, Death & the Spring, London: William Heinemann, 1912, page 101.

1 Charles: "youthful"

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Hindu Cradle Song

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.

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Set by Helen Searles Westbrook (1889 - 1967 ) [ soprano and piano ]
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Confirmed with Sarojini Naidu, The Golden Threshold, London: William Heinemann, 1905.

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

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If you call me

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Indifference

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Total word count: 169