by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882)
One flame‑winged brought a white‑winged...
Language: English
One flame-winged brought a white-winged harp-player Even where my lady and I lay all alone; Saying: "Behold this minstrel is unknown; Bid him depart, for I am minstrel here: Only my songs are to love's dear ones dear." Then said I "Through thine hautboy's rapturous tone Unto my lady still this harp makes moan, And still she deems the cadence deep and clear." Then said my lady: "Thou art passion of Love, And this Love's worship: both he plights to me. Thy mastering music walks the sunlit sea: But where wan water trembles in the grove, And the wan moon is all the light thereof, This harp still makes my name its voluntary."
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- by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882), "Passion and worship", appears in Poems, first published 1870 [author's text not yet checked 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 Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958), "Love's minstrels", 1903, published 1904 [ voice and piano ], from The House of Life, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
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