The moon has set,
and the Pleiades; it is midnight,
... time is going by,
and I sleep alone.The moon has set
Set by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (1868 - 1946), "The moon has set", from Sappho: Prelude and Nine Fragments, no. 5 [Sung Text]
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- by Henry Thornton Wharton (1846 - 1895), no title
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- a text in Aeolic Greek by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE), no title
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Researcher for this page: Guy Laffaille [Guest Editor]I yearn and seek ... I know not what to do - And I flutter like a child after her mother
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- by Henry Thornton Wharton (1846 - 1895), no title
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]For Love masters my limbs and shakes me, fatal creature, bitter-sweet.
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Researcher for this page: Guy Laffaille [Guest Editor]Yea, Eros shakes my soul, a wind on the mountain falling on the oaks.
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- by Henry Thornton Wharton (1846 - 1895), no title
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]Alas! I shall be ever maiden
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- by Helen Maude Francesca Bantock, née von Schweitzer (1868 - 1961)
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]Neither honey nor bee for me.
Text Authorship:
- by Henry Thornton Wharton (1846 - 1895)
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- a text in Aeolic Greek by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE)
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]Author(s): Henry Thornton Wharton (1846 - 1895), Helen Maude Francesca Bantock, née von Schweitzer (1868 - 1961)