by Charles Hanson Towne (1877 - 1949)
The myrtles of Damascus, when they smile
Language: English
The myrtles of Damascus, when they smile, Exalt my soul to some remote, high place — But O thy face!1 Roses of Baghdad, bathed in moonlight dew, Make my heart drunk when all their joy it sips — But O thy lips!1
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Charles Hanson Towne, The Quiet Singer and Other Poems, B. W. Dodge & Company, New York 1908, Page 115.
1 Woodforde-Finden adds "O my love!"Text Authorship:
- by Charles Hanson Towne (1877 - 1949), no title, appears in The Quiet Singer and Other Poems, in Songs out of the Orient, in 84. A Baghdad Lover (Being Certain Fragments from Scheherazade’s Songs in “The Thousand and One Nights”), no. 7, New York, B. W. Dodge & Company, first published 1908 [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 Blair Fairchild (1877 - 1933), "The Myrtles of Damascus", op. 25 no. 7, published 1911 [ voice and piano ], from A Baghdad lover, no. 7, New York : H.W. Gray [sung text not yet checked]
- by Amy Woodforde-Finden (1860 - 1919), "The myrtles of Damascus", published 1918 [ voice and piano ], from The Myrtles of Damascus, no. 1, Boosey and Co., London [sung text checked 1 time]
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