by Mathilde Blind (1841 - 1896)
New Year's Eve
Language: English
Another full-orbed year hath waned to-day, And set in the irrevocable past, And headlong whirled long Time's winged blast My fluttering rose of youth is borne away: Ah rose once crimson with the blood of May, A honeyed haunt where bees would break their fast, I watch thy scattering petals flee aghast, And all the flickering rose-lights turning grey. Poor fool of life! plagued ever with thy vain Regrets and futile longings! were the years Not cups o'erbrimming still with gall and tears? Let go thy puny personal joy and pain! If youth with all its brief hope disappears, To deathless hope we must be born again.
Authorship:
- by Mathilde Blind (1841 - 1896), "New Year's Eve", appears in Sonnets [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 Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "New Year's Eve", op. 152 no. 3 (2008) [ mixed chorus and piano ], from Vier Neujahrslieder, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2014-09-17
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