by Charles Hanson Towne (1877 - 1949)
O in that hour when both of us are dead
Language: English
O in that hour when both of us are dead, When all of Life and Love at last is said, Will some red rose bloom o'er our graves to tell how our hearts bled? Or will a lily, in the starlit night, Lift its pale wonder and its waxen light, To tell the world how our poor hearts loved with a love most white?
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Confirmed with The Quiet Singer and Other Poems by Charles Hanson Towne, B. W. Dodge & Company, New York 1908, Page 132.
Authorship:
- by Charles Hanson Towne (1877 - 1949), no title, appears in The Quiet Singer and Other Poems, in 87. Certain Fragments from the Arabic, no. 3, 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 Amy Woodforde-Finden (1860 - 1919), "L'envoi", published 1918 [ voice and piano ], from The Myrtles of Damascus, no. 5, Boosey and Co., London [sung text checked 1 time]
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