by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892)
Peace, come away Matches original text
Language: English
Peace; come away: the song of woe
Is after all an earthly song:
Peace; come away: we do him wrong
To sing so wildly: let us go.
Come; let us go: your cheeks are pale;
But half my life I leave behind:
Methinks my friend is richly shrined;
But I shall pass; my work will fail.
Yet in these ears, till hearing dies,
One set slow bell will seem to toll
The passing of the sweetest soul
That ever look'd with human eyes.
I hear it now, and o'er and o'er,
Eternal greetings to the dead;
And "Ave, Ave, Ave," said,
"Adieu, adieu" for evermore.
Composition:
- Set to music by Jonathan Dove (b. 1959), "Peace, come away", 2017 [ tenor and piano ], from Under Alter'd Skies, no. 6, confirmed with a concert programme booklet
Text Authorship:
- by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892), no title, written 1849, appears in In Memoriam A. H. H. obiit MDCCCXXXIII, no. 57, first published 1850
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This text was added to the website: 2009-01-12
Line count: 16
Word count: 106