My mother sea, my fostress, what new strand, What new delight of waters, may this be, The fairest found since time's first breezes fanned My mother sea? Once more I give me body and soul to thee, Who hast my soul for ever: cliff and sand Recede, and heart to heart once more are we. My heart springs first and plunges, ere my hand Strike out from shore: more close it brings to me, More near and dear than seems my fatherland, My mother sea.
Four songs
Song Cycle by Leo Smith (1881 - 1952)
?. My mother sea [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Text Authorship:
- by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 - 1909), no title, appears in A Century of Roundels, in In Guernsey, no. 2, first published 1883
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]To Helen
Language: English
Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicéan barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo! In yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand! Ah, Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy-Land!
Text Authorship:
- by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), "To Helen", written 1831 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
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Set by Leo Smith (1881 - 1952), published 1914 [ voice and piano ]Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
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