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Saudades

Song Cycle by Peter Warlock (1894 - 1930)

1. Along the stream
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
The rustling nightfall strews my gown with roses,
And wine-flushed petals bring forgetfulness
 ... .
I arise with the stars exultantly 
and follow the sweep of the moon 
along the hushing stream, where no birds wake. 
Only the far-drawn sigh of wary voices 
whispering: farewell.

Text Authorship:

  • by Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng (1872 - 1945), "Along the stream", appears in A Feast of Lanterns, first published 1916 [an adaptation]

Based on:

  • a text in Chinese (中文) by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762), "自遣"
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Researcher for this page: David K. Smythe

2. Take, o take those lips away  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
Take, o take those lips away,
That so sweetly [were]1 forsworn;
And those eyes, the break of day,
Lights [that]2 do mislead the morn:
But my kisses bring again;
Seals of love, [but]3 seal'd in vain, sealed in vain.

Hide, o hide those hills of snow
that thy frozen bosom wears,
On whose tops the pinks that grow
are yet of those that April wears;
But first set my poor heart free,
Bound in those icy chains by thee.

Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
  • sometimes misattributed to William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (L. A. J. Burgersdijk)
  • FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Paavo Cajander)
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Sarah L. Weller) , "Nimm, so nimm doch Deine Lippen fort", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • POL Polish (Polski) (Jan Kasprowicz) , "Śpiew Pacholęcia", Warsaw, first published 1907

View original text (without footnotes)
Note: quoted by John Fletcher, in Bloody Brother, 1639 and by William Shakespeare, in Measure for Measure, Act IV, scene 1, c1604 (just one stanza)
1 Bishop: "are"
2 Bishop: "which"
3 Bishop: "tho'"

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

3. Heraclitus
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead;
They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed;
I wept, as I remembered, how often you and I
Had tired the sun with talking, and sent him down the sky.

And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest,
A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest,
Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales, awake;
For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take.

Text Authorship:

  • by William Johnson Cory (1823 - 1892), "Heraclitus"

Based on:

  • a text in Greek (Ελληνικά) by Callimachus (flourished 3rd century BCE)
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Researcher for this page: Ted Perry
Total word count: 210
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