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by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 - 1909)

Ave atque vale (In Memory of Charles Baudelaire)
 (Sung text for setting by M. Gideon)
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Language: English 
 ... 

Now all strange hours and all strange loves are over,
   Dreams and desires and sombre songs and sweet,
   Hast thou found place at the great knees and feet
Of some pale Titan-woman like a lover,
   Such as thy vision here solicited,
   Under the shadow of her fair vast head,
The deep division of prodigious breasts,
   The solemn slope of mighty limbs asleep,
   The weight of awful tresses that still keep
The savour and shade of old-world pine-forests
   Where the wet hill-winds weep?

Composition:

    Set to music by Miriam Gideon (1906 - 1996), "Ave atque vale (In Memory of Charles Baudelaire)", 1987, stanza 6 [ high voice and piano ], from Poet to Poet: an Ode to Ben Jonson, no. 3

Text Authorship:

  • by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 - 1909), "Ave atque Vale (In memory of Charles Baudelaire)"

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This text was added to the website: 2009-02-16
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