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Look not in my eyes, for fear They mirror true the sight I see, And there you find your face too clear And love it and be lost like me. One the long nights through must lie Spent in star-defeated sighs, But why should you as well as I Perish? Gaze not in my eyes. A Grecian lad, as I hear tell, One that many loved in vain, Looked into a forest well And never looked away again. There, when the turf in springtime flowers, With downward eye and gazes sad, Stands amid the glancing showers A jonquil, not a Grecian lad.
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Text Authorship:
- by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936), no title, appears in A Shropshire Lad, no. 15, first published 1896 [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 Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley, Sir (1903 - 1989), "Look not in my eyes", op. 14 no. 3d (1940), published 1983 [ high voice and piano ], from Five Housman Songs, op. 14 no. 3, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by David Branson (b. 1909), "Look not in my eyes", published 1939 [ mezzo-soprano or baritone and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by George Sainton Kaye Butterworth (1885 - 1916), "Look not in my eyes", published 1911 [ voice and piano ], from Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Alfred Redgrave Cripps (1882 - 1950), "Look not in my eyes, for fear", published <<1944 [ voice and piano ], from Five "Shropshire Lad" Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Blair Fairchild (1877 - 1933), "Look not in my eyes", op. 9 no. 1 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Thaddeus Gorecki , "Look not in my eyes, for fear", c1933 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Timothy Hoekman , "Look not in my eyes", 1981, published 1988 [ voice and piano ], from Seven Housman Songs, no. 6, Look not in my eyes [sung text not yet checked]
- by John (Nicholson) Ireland (1879 - 1962), "Ladslove", published 1921 [ voice and piano ], from The Land of Lost Content, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Look not in my eyes", op. 130 (1947) [ baritone and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Look Not In My Eyes", op. 520 (1958) [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Look Not In My Eyes", op. 659 (1965) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Corbett C. Sumsion , "Look not in my eyes", published c1936 [ TTBB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Ramsden Williamson (1929 - 2015), "Look not in my eyes" [ baritone and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Patricia Dillard Eguchi) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- HEB Hebrew (עברית) (Max Mader) , "אל תביטי בעיניי", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 102
Ne me regarde pas dans les yeux, de crainte Qu’ils ne soient le miroir de ce que je vois, Et d’y trouver ton visage trop clairement, Et de l’aimer et d’être perdu, comme moi. Tu passerais de longues nuits, étendu, A soupirer parce que ta bonne étoile t’abandonne, Mais pourquoi devrais-tu, comme moi, Périr ? Ne me regarde pas dans les yeux. Un jeune homme grec, j’ai entendu dire, Que beaucoup aimaient en vain, Regarda dans un puit de forêt, Et puis ne regarda jamais plus. Là où l’herbe fleurit au printemps, Les yeux baissés et le regard triste, Il est debout sous les averses, Un narcisse et non plus un jeune homme grec.
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Translations of title(s):
"Ladslove" = "L'amour d'un gars"
"Look not in my eyes" = "Ne me regarde pas dans les yeux"
"Look not in my eyes, for fear" = "Ne me regarde pas dans les yeux, de crainte"
Text Authorship:
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Based on:
- a text in English by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936), no title, appears in A Shropshire Lad, no. 15, first published 1896
This text was added to the website: 2018-08-21
Line count: 16
Word count: 113