Oh Amber Eyes, oh Golden Eyes!
Oh Eyes so softly gay!
Wherein swift fancies fall and rise,
Grow dark and fade away.
Eyes like a little limpid pool
That holds a sunset sky,
While on its surface, calm and cool,
Blue water lilies lie.
Oh Tender Eyes, oh Wistful Eyes,
You smiled on me one day,
And all my life, in glad surprise,
Leapt up and pleaded "Stay!"
Alas, oh cruel, starlike eyes,
So grave and yet so gay,
You went to lighten other skies,
Smiled once and passed away.
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Indian Love Songs
Song Cycle by Huub de Lange (b. 1955)
1. Golden Eyes  [sung text checked 1 time]
Language: English
Authorship:
- by Adela Florence Nicolson (1865 - 1904), "Golden Eyes", appears in India's Love Lyrics [later Garden of Kama and Other Love Lyrics from India]
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]2. Unforgotten  [sung text checked 1 time]
Language: English
Do you ever think of me? you who died
Ere our Youth's first fervour chilled,
With your soft [eyes]1 and your pulses stilled
Lying alone, aside,
Do you ever think of me, left in the light,
From the endless calm of your dawnless [night?]2
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Authorship:
- by Adela Florence Nicolson (1865 - 1904), "Unforgotten", appears in India's Love Lyrics [later Garden of Kama and Other Love Lyrics from India]
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View original text (without footnotes)1 de Lange: "eyes closed"
2 de Lange: "night?/ / I dream of your soft and sorrowful eyes" (from the final stanza)
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
3. The Gold Forlorn  [sung text checked 1 time]
Language: English
The sudden Thought of your Face is like a Wound When it comes unsought On some scent of Jasmin, Lilies, or pale Tuberose. Any one of the [sweet white fragrant]1 flowers, Flowers I used to love and lay in your hair. [ ... ] Sunset is terribly sad. I saw you stand Tall against the red and the gold like a slender palm; The light wind stirred your hair as you waved your hand, Waved farewell, as ever, serene and calm, To me, the passion-wearied and tost and torn, Riding down the road in the gathering grey. Since that day The sunset red is empty, the gold forlorn. [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Adela Florence Nicolson (1865 - 1904), "Reminiscence of Mahomed Akram", appears in India's Love Lyrics [later Garden of Kama and Other Love Lyrics from India]
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with India's Love Lyrics by Laurence Hope, et al., from gutenberg.org
1 de Lange: "sweet fragrant"Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Total word count: 902