by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
Translation by Konstantin Dmitrevich Bal'mont (1867 - 1942)
There be none of Beauty's daughters
Language: English
There be none of Beauty's daughters With a magic like thee; And like music on the waters Is thy sweet voice to me: When, as if its sound were causing The [charmèd]1 ocean's pausing, The waves lie still and gleaming, And the lull'd winds seem dreaming: And the midnight moon is weaving Her bright chain o'er the deep; Whose breast is gently heaving As an infant's asleep: So the spirit bows before thee, To listen and adore thee; With a full but soft emotion, Like the swell of Summer's ocean.
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Mendelssohn: "charm'd"
Text Authorship:
- by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824), "Stanzas for music", appears in Poems, first published 1816 [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 Gilbert A. Alcock , "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1908 [ chorus ], partsong [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frances Allitsen (1848 - 1912), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1889 [ voice and piano ], London : Pitt and Hatzfield [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Jan van Amerongen (b. 1938), "Stanzas for music", 1973, from Thompson-liederen, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by David Arditti (b. 1964), "Stanzas for Music", op. 2 no. 1 (1985-99), first performed 1990, from Thoughts of Youth, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Thomas Henry Wait Armstrong (1898 - ?), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1931 [ satb chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ivor Algernon Atkins (1869 - 1953), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1924 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frederic Balazs (b. 1920), "For Music", 1952 [ soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Harry C. Banks , "Allure", published 1932 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edward Johnson Bellerby (1858 - ?), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1886 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Oscar Bernard , "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1899 [ alto or baritone and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Albert E. Bevan , "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1910 [ SSATB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Allan Biggs , "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1926 [ SS chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Karl Bjorseth , "There be none of Beauty's daughters", op. 5 no. ?, published [1894] [ mezzo-soprano or baritone and piano ], from 3 engelske Sange med norsk Oversaettelse, Kristiania : Warmuth [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Braun (1868 - ?), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published c1900 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by A. (Alfred or Arthur?) Herbert Brewer (1865 - 1928), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", 1905, published 1925, first performed 1906 [ TTBB quartet or chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Henry Brown (1830 - 1926), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1856 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edward Bunnett (1834 - 1923), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1861 [ medium voice (or high voice) and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rex de Cairos-Rego , "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1911 [ low voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joseph Carleton , "A Love Song", published 1870 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Thomas Case , "Stanzas set to music", published 1918 [ high voice and piano ], from Twelve songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895 - 1968), "Music on the Waters", 1941 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frederick William Clarke (1852 - 1883), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1880 [ high voice and piano ], from Ten songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by William Clayton , "There be none of Beauty's daughters", op. 22 no. ?, published 1860 [ alto, piano, and violoncello ad libitum ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by George B. Cogdell , "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 183-? [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by William Collins , "Beauty's daughter", published 1848? [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alfred Redgrave Cripps (1882 - 1950), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1909 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edward Joseph Dent (1876 - 1957), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", 1896 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Giuseppe Dinelli , "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1914 [ TTBB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Downs, Jr. , "There be none of Beauty's daughters", op. 7 no. ?, published 1866 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Lodge Ellerton (1801 - 1873), "There be none of beauties' [sic] Daughters", 1822, published 1826 [ voice and piano ], from Six Canzonets [sung text not yet checked]
- by Kenneth George Finlay (1882 - 1974), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1933 [ chorus ], partsong or unison chorus [sung text not yet checked]
- by Bernard Fitzgerald , "Stanzas set to music", published 1976 [ SATB chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by James S. Ford , "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1892 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Herbert Foulds (1880 - 1939), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", op. 11 no. 1 (1925) [ voice and piano or orchestra ], from Three Songs of Beauty, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889 - 1960), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", alternate title: "For Music", published 1937 [ TTBB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alan Gray (1855 - 1935), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1884 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joseph R. W. Harding , "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1859 [ tenor and piano with violin ad libitum ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Horton Harris (b. 1938), "Stanzas set to music", 1961 [ voice and piano ], from Three Byron Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by David Haupt , "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1938 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carl Hause , "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1868 [ soprano or tenor and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Maria Billington Hawes (1816 - 1886), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1856 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henry Faulkner Henniker , "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1888-9 [ soprano, SATB chorus, and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Fanny Hensel (1805 - 1847), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", 1836, published 2001 [ voice and piano ], Furore Verlag [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Alexander Frederic von Hessen (1863 - ?), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", op. 26 (Four songs) no. ?, published 1935 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joseph Holbrooke (1878 - 1958), "Beauty's daughters", 1940, published 1954 [ alto or baritone and piano ], from Two Byron songs, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Franklin Hopkins (1879 - ?), "With a magic like thee", published 1913 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by William Henry Humiston (1869 - 1923), "Beauty's Daughters", published 1912 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by A. Isly , "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1867 [ tenor and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Lucina Jewell , "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1929 [ SSAA chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by William Noel Johnson (1863 - 1916), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1892 [ voice and piano ], from Two songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Laura Karpman , "Stanzas for music", copyright © 1986 [ soprano or tenor, flute (piccolo), English horn, bass clarinet, marimba, harpsichord, violin, viola, and contrabass ], from Stanzas for Music, no. 1, Saint Louis, Étoile Music ; note: this may be the wrong text for this title [sung text not yet checked]
- by Philip Knapton (1788 - 1833), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1818 [ female voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Graeme Koehne , "Stanzas for music", 1993 [ voice and orchestra or string quartet ], from Three Poems of Byron, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henry Francis Limpus (d. 1893), "To Inez", published 1880 [ baritone and piano ], note: [sic] for the title attached to this setting [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hamish MacCunn (1868 - 1916), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1892 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by William Mason , "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1884 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Tobias Augustus Matthay (1858 - 1945), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1880 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Colin McAlpin (1870 - 1942), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1905 [ voice and piano ], from Ten songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", 1836, published 2001 [ voice and piano ], Furore Verlag [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "Stanzas for Music [I] (There be none of Beauty’s daughters)", op. 323 (Sieben Lieder nach George Lord Byron) no. 5 (2021) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Antonio L. Mora , "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1884 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ignaz Moscheles (1794 - 1870), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1840? [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ann Sheppard Mounsey (1811 - 1891), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", op. 16 (Three songs), published 1840? [ medium voice and piano duet ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Thomas Molleson Mudie (1809 - 1876), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1845 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sigismund von Neukomm (1778 - 1858), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1853 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joseph Edward Newell , "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1884 [ 2-part chorus and piano ], from Twelve Two-Part Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Roy Newman , "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1945 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Harold Noble (1903 - 1998), "Beauty's Daughters", published 1950 [ SSA chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Samuel Harold Oakley , "Beauty's Daughter", published 1924 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Owens (1925 - 2017), "Stanzas for music" [ tenor and piano ], from Stanzas for Music, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (1848 - 1918), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", 1895-6, published 1896 [ voice and piano ], from English Lyrics, Fourth Set, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Paston-Cooper , "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1900 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mrs. Edmund Peel , "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1850? [ voice and piano ], London : Leoni Lee [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henry Hugo Pierson (1816 - 1873), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1839 [ voice and piano ], from Thoughts of Melody [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frederick Piket (1903 - 1974), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1957 [ three-part chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Pointer (d. 1934), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1915 [ TTBB chorus a cappella ], from Four Part-Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur John Pritchard , "For Music", published 1959 [ SSA chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Humphrey Procter-Gregg (1895 - 1980), "There be none of Beauty's daughters" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", op. 24 no. 1 (1922), published 1922, first performed 1922 [ voice and piano ], from Five English Love Lyrics, no. 1, London, Chappell [sung text not yet checked]
- by Costi C. Ralli , "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1883 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by George Rathbone (1874 - ?), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1930 [ TTBB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Herbert Frederick Birch Reynardson , "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1880 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by G. O. Seers , "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1914 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Sewell , "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1881 [ tenor and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Duncan Smyth , "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1909 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Laurence Southwick , "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1943 [ women's chorus ], partsong [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (1852 - 1924), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", op. 14 (Six Songs) no. 4, published 1882 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jack Meredith Tatton (1901 - 1970), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1939 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], partsong [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Thomas (1826 - 1913), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 18--? [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Thomson (1805 - 1841), "There be none of Beauty's daughters" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Millard S. Thomson (b. 1918), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", 1944, first performed 1951 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Donald Francis Tovey (1875 - 1940), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1926 [ voice and piano ], from Six Songs, Set 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Henry Walthew (1872 - 1951), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1908 [ SATB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Budgeon Ward , "None like thee", published 1859 [ tenor and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Wintter Haynes Watts (1884 - 1962), "Like music on the Waters", published 1918 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810 - 1876), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", 1839 [ soprano or tenor and orchestra ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mary Louisa White (1866 - 1935), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1906 [ low voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Maude Valérie White (1855 - 1937), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1885 [ voice and piano ], London: Ricordi [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Wood (1866 - 1926), "There be none of Beauty's daughters", 1926 [ ATTB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Donald Wood , "There be none of Beauty's daughters", published 1934 [ TTBB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Thomas Henry Wright , "Like the swell of summer's ocean", published 1837 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in Danish (Dansk), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [an adaptation] ; composed by Emil Sjögren.
- Also set in Danish (Dansk), a translation possibly by Christian Preezmann (1822 - 1893) and possibly by Ernst Frederik Wilhelm von der Recke (1848 - 1933); composed by Peter Arnold Heise.
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation possibly by Karl Klingemann (1798 - 1862); composed by Felix Mendelssohn.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Otto Gildemeister (1823 - 1902) ; composed by Ludwig Hess, Alexander Ritter, Hugo Wolf.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Ernst Ortlepp (1800 - 1864) ; composed by Franz Paul Lachner.
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Nikolai Platonovich Ogaryov (1813 - 1877) , "Стансы" ; composed by Vladimir Mitrofanovich Ivanov-Korsunsky, Kristian Genrikh Paufler, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Shakhmatov, Konstantin Nikolayevich Startsev.
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Konstantin Dmitrevich Bal'mont (1867 - 1942) , "Стансы для музыки", written 1903 ; composed by Emil Cooper, Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Sloky pro hudbu"
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Alexis Paulin Pâris) , "Stances à mettre en musique"
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Fra tutte le più belle", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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: 91
Кто сравнится в высшем споре
Language: Russian (Русский) after the English
Кто сравнится в высшем споре Красотой с тобой? Точно музыка на море Нежный голос твой. Точно музыка в тумане На далёком океане, В час, как ветры, в сладких снах, Чуть трепещут на волнах. В полночь месяц чуть колышет Воды в глубине; Лоно моря еле дышит, Как дитя во сне. Так душа, полна мечтою, Чутко дышит красотою; Нежно в ней растёт прибой, Зачарованный тобой.
N. Myaskovsky sets stanza 2
About the headline (FAQ)
Confirmed with К. Д. Бальмонт, Из Мировой Поэзии, Берлин (Berlin): Изд. Слово, 1921, page 51.
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Note on TransliterationsText Authorship:
- by Konstantin Dmitrevich Bal'mont (1867 - 1942), "Стансы для музыки", written 1903 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in English by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824), "Stanzas for music", appears in Poems, first published 1816
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Emil Cooper (1877 - 1960), "Кто сравнится в высшем споре" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky (1881 - 1950), "В полночь месяц", op. 2 no. 4 (1903-1906), published 1945, stanza 2 [ voice and piano ], from Из юношеских лет, 12 романсов на слова К. Бальмонта (Iz junosheskikh let) = The Days of Youth, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2021-07-26
Line count: 16
Word count: 63