by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892)
Maud has a garden See original
Language: English
1.
Maud has a garden of roses
And lilies fair on a lawn:
There she walks in her state
And tends upon bed and bower
And thither I climb'd at dawn
And stood by her garden-gate.
...
4.
I heard no sound where I stood
But the rivulet on from the lawn
Running down to my own dark wood;
Or the voice of the long sea-wave as it swell'd
Now and then in the dim-gray dawn;
But I look'd, and round, all round the house I beheld
The death-white curtain drawn;
Felt a horror over me creep,
Prickle my skin and catch my breath,
Knew that the death-white curtain meant but sleep,
Yet I shudder'd and thought like a fool of the sleep of death.
Composition:
- Set to music by Arthur Somervell, Sir (1863 - 1937), "Maud has a garden", published 1907, stanzas 1,4 [ voice and piano ], from Cycle of Songs from Tennyson's Maud, no. 6
Text Authorship:
- by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892), no title, appears in Maud, Part 1, no. 14
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