by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892)
Come not, when I am dead
Language: English
Come not, when I am dead, To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave, To trample [round]1 my fallen head, And vex the unhappy dust thou wouldst not save. There let the wind sweep and the plover cry; But thou, go by. Child, if it were thine error or thy crime I care no longer, being all unblest: Wed whom thou wilt, but I am sick of Time, And I desire to rest. Pass on, weak heart, and leave me where I lie: Go by, go by.
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Text Authorship:
- by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892), "Stanzas", appears in Keepsake, first published 1850, rev. 1851 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by S. Agnesi (flourished c1893), "Come not, when I am dead", published [1893] [ voice and piano ], London: Novello [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frances Allitsen (1848 - 1912), "Come not, when I am dead", published 1889 [ voice and piano ], from Six Songs, no. 2, London : E. Ascherberg & Co. [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Roger Ascham (1864 - 1934), "Come not, when I am dead", op. 22 (Twelve Songs with Pianoforte Accompaniment) no. 6 (1882-1899), published c1910 [ voice and piano ], London, Charles Vincent [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Jacques (Jacob) Blumenthal (1829 - 1908), "Come not, when I am dead", published 1901 [ voice and piano ], from Two Books of Song, Volume I : In the Shadow, London: Boosey & Hawkes [sung text not yet checked]
- by H. Douglass , "Come not, when I am dead", <<1892 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joseph Holbrooke (1878 - 1958), "Come not, when I am dead", op. 30 no. 3 (1904), published 1906 [ high voice and piano ], from Six Romantic Songs, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joseph Holbrooke (1878 - 1958), "Come not, when I am dead", op. 69 no. 3, published 1921, copyright © 1921, first performed 1918 [ high voice, string quartet, and piano ], from Three Dramatic Songs, no. 3, London: Novello; New York: H. W. Gray Co. [sung text checked 1 time]
- by John Pike Hullah (1812 - 1884), "Come not, when I am dead", published 1880 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by ? Jenkinson, Lady , "Come not, when I am dead", <<1892 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by M. C. Laumann , "Broken-hearted", published [BL 1868] [ voice and piano ], London: Ollivier [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edward Lear (1812 - 1888), "Come not, when I am dead", published 1859 [ voice and piano ], from Poems and Songs by Alfred Tennyson, London: Cramer, Beale & Chappell [sung text not yet checked]
- by Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "Come not, when I am dead", op. 145 no. 1 (2008), published 2014 [ four-part mixed chorus ], from Three Poems by Alfred Tennyson, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Come Not, When I Am Dead", op. 255 (1950) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Caroline Reinagle, née Orger (1818 - 1892), "Come not, when I am dead", published [BL 1880] [ voice and piano ], London: Stanley Lucas, Weber, & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Clara Kathleen Rogers (1844 - 1931), "Come not when I am dead", op. 24 (Five Songs) no. 4, published 1887 [ voice and piano ], Boston : Arthur P. Schmidt and Co. [sung text checked 1 time]
- by William Howard Schuman (1910 - 1992), "Come not", published 1942 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Four Canonic Choruses, NY : G. Schirmer [sung text not yet checked]
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Adolf Strodtmann (1829 - 1879) , no title ; composed by Heinrich Zöllner.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Gustav Legerlotz (1832 - 1904) ; composed by Oskar Wermann.
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