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by Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860 - 1943)

Grey rocks and greyer sea
Language: English 
Grey rocks, and greyer sea,
    And surf along the shore --
And in my heart a name
    My lips shall speak no more.
 
The high and lonely hills
    Endure the darkening year --
And in my heart endure
    A [memory]1 and a tear.
 
Across the tide a sail
    That tosses, and is gone --
And in my heart the kiss
    That longing dreams upon.
 
Grey rocks, and greyer sea,
    And surf along the shore --
And in my heart the face
    That I shall see no more.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   M. Cave-Browne-Cave •   B. Tamblyn 

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Confirmed with The Collected Poems of Sir Charles G.D. Roberts, edited by Desmond Pacey, Wolfville, NS: The Wombat Press, 1985, pages 137-138

1 Cave-Browne-Cave, Tamblyn: "mem'ry"

Text Authorship:

  • by Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860 - 1943), "Grey rocks and greyer sea" [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 Mabel P. (Phoebe?) Cave-Browne-Cave (1881 - 1958), "Grey rocks and greyer sea", 1923. [voice and piano] [
     text verified 1 time
    ]
  • by Bertha Louise Tamblyn (1877 - 1954), "Grey rocks and greyer sea " [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2015-08-24
Line count: 16
Word count: 84

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