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Farewell! if ever fondest prayer For other's weal availed on high, Mine will not all be lost in air, But waft thy name beyond the sky. 'Twere vain to speak, to weep, to sigh: Oh! more than tears of blood can tell, When wrung from guilt's expiring eye, Are in that word - Farewell! - Farewell! These lips are mute, these eyes are dry; But in my breast and in my brain, Awake the pangs that pass not by, The thought that ne'er shall sleep again. My soul nor deigns nor dares complain, Though grief and passion there rebel: I only know we loved in vain - I only feel - Farewell! - Farewell!
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Authorship:
- by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824), "Farewell", appears in The Corsair, first published 1814 [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 Annie E. Armstrong , "Farewell if ever fondest prayer", published 1873 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frederick Cook Atkinson (1841 - 1897), "Farewell", published 1876 [ voice and piano ], from Six songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Adolphe G. Beck , "Farewell, farewell", published 1848 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Amelia Becker and by Theophilus H. Reed , "Lord Byron's 'Farewell'", published 1871 [ voice and piano ], the melody is by Reed and the music by Becker [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles H. Behr , "Farewell if ever fondest prayer", published 1890 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by T. Alfred Bell , "Farewell if ever fondest prayer", published 1895 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Francis Boott (1813 - 1904), as Telford, "Byron's Farewell", published 1845 [ voice and piano ], from Six Songs, no. 4, Boston: Geo. P. Reed Publishing [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alfred B. Burrington , "Farewell if ever fondest prayer", published 1863 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frederick William Clarke (1852 - 1883), "Farewell! if ever fondest prayer", published 1880 [ high voice and piano ], from Ten songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Collett , "Farewell! if ever fondest prayer", published <<1887 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Franz Maria D'Alquen (b. 1798), "Farewell if ever fondest prayer", published 1876 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ina Dawes , "Farewell", published 1882 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles George Cotsford Dick (1846 - 1911), "Farewell if ever fondest prayer", published 1881 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Lodge Ellerton (1801 - 1873), "Farewell! if ever fondest prayer", 1822 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Adolph Martin Foerster (1854 - 1927), "Farewell", op. 53 no. 10, published 1903 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by George Gaff , "Farewell", published 1869? [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Edmund Grimshaw (1864 - ?), "Farewell", published 1883 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Grobe (1817 - 1880), "Farewell if ever fondest prayer", published 1851 [ voice and piano duet ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by William H. A. Hall , "Farewell", published <<1929 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Frederick Harvey , "Farewell if ever", published 1884 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alfred Hasborough , "Farewell", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Fanny Hensel (1805 - 1847), "Farewell", 1837, published 2001 [ voice and piano ], Furore Verlag [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Mary Hindley , "Farewell if ever fondest prayer", published 1895 [ alto or baritone and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by J. Dodsley Humphreys , "Farewell if ever fondest prayer", published <<1840 [ male voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joseph Harper Kearton (1848 - ?), "Farewell", published 1874 [ soprano or tenor and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by George Linley (1798 - 1865), "Farewell if ever fondest prayer", published 1854 [ voice and piano ], from An Evening with Byron [sung text not yet checked]
- by George Alexander MacFarren (1813 - 1887), "Farewell if ever fondest prayer", published 1868 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by George William Martin (1828 - 1881), "Farewell", published 1881 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gaetano Muratori , "Farewell if ever fondest prayer", published 1873 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henry Myers , "Farewell", published 1917 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sigismund von Neukomm (1778 - 1858), "Farewell", published 1835? [ alto and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Herbert Stanley Oakeley (1830 - 1903), "Farewell! If ever fondest prayer", published 1850? [ tenor or soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Samuel Harold Oakley , "Farewell! If ever fondest prayer", published 1913 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Pointer (d. 1934), "Farewell", published 1910 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Salaman (1814 - 1901), "Farewell! If ever fondest prayer", published 1843 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by H. A. Salwey , "Farewell if ever fondest prayer", published 1878 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by August Schulz , "Lord Byron's 'Farewell if ever fondest prayer'", published 1835? [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by William Shelmerdine (d. 1893), "Farewell", published 1859 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Andrew Stevenson (1761 - 1833), "A farewell", published 1816 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alfred Stourton , "Farewell", published 1862 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alfred James Sutton (1827 - ?), "Farewell if ever fondest prayer", op. 1 (Six songs) no. ?, published 1858 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Giulio Tartaglione , "Byron's Farewell", published 1876 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nino Tetamo , "Farewell! If ever Fondest Heart", published 1918 [ voice and piano ], note: textual changes not indicated [sung text not yet checked]
- by ?, Mrs. Thistlethwayte , "Farewell! If ever fondest prayer", published c1840 [ vocal duet with piano ], London, D'Almaine [sung text not yet checked]
- by Augustus Voigt , "Farewell! if ever fondest prayer", c1825, published <<1940 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sidney Waller , "Farewell if ever fondest prayer", published c1825 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Samuel Prowse Warren (1841 - 1915), "Farewell if ever", 1865 [ voice and organ ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles F. Webb , "Farewell", published 1874 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by C. G. Weber , "Farewell if ever fondest prayer", published 1850 [ voice and piano ], arrangement of a German air [sung text not yet checked]
- by Samuel Wesley (1766 - 1837), "Farewell if ever fondest prayer", <<1837 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Maude Valérie White (1855 - 1937), "Farewell if ever fondest prayer", published 1874 [ voice and piano ], London: Stanley Lucas, Weber & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
- by J. A. E. Winkler , "Farewell! if ever fondest prayer", published 1851 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by S. Constantino Yon , "Farewell", published 1907 [ low voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Emmy A. Zogbaum , "Farewell if ever fondest prayer", published 1887 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Therese Albertine Luise von Jacob (1797 - 1870) ; composed by Carl Loewe.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Wenzel Gährich.
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Malvina Schnorr von Carolsfeld, née Malvina Garrigues.
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Adalbert von Goldschmidt, Hermann Hirschfeld.
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Alexander Winterberger.
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- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841) , "Farewell", written 1830 ; composed by Eduard Frantsevich Nápravník.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Alexis Paulin Pâris) , "Adieu"
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 114
Vaarwel! Als ooit een vuur’ge bede Voor iemands heil zich toonde sterk, De mijne lost niet op in lucht, Maar draagt jouw naam tot boven ‘t zwerk. Vergeefs is spraak, vergeefs gezucht: Geen traan van bloed schetst meer de hel - Geperst door schuld uit stervend oog -, Dan ’t enk'le woord ‘Vaarwel, vaarwel!’. Mijn mond is stom, mijn ogen droog; Maar in mijn borst en in mijn brein Ontwaakt de pijn die nooit vergaat, ’t Besef dat steeds zal wakker zijn. Maar klagen kan noch wil mijn ziel, Al is verbitt’ring daar rebel: Ik weet alleen: vergeefs bemind! Ik voel alleen: Vaarwel, vaarwel!
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Based on:
- a text in English by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824), "Farewell", appears in The Corsair, first published 1814
This text was added to the website: 2017-06-08
Line count: 16
Word count: 104