by Stanislaus Eric Stenbock, Count (1860 - 1895)
Ah sweet! those eyes, that used to be so...
Language: English
Ah sweet! those eyes, that used to be so tender, Are grown so cold, as bitter cold as death, The burnt out ashes fall into the fender, None shall revive the flame that perisheth. So leave me "love," just kiss me one, then turning Go forth from me before the fall of day, It were better "love" to leave the ashes burning, Than wait, too late, till they are burnt away.
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Confirmed with Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock, The Shadow of Death. A Collection of Poems, Songs, and Sonnets, London: The Leadenhall Press, Ltd, 1893, page 12. Note from this section: "These songs are no more Slavic than Mrs. Browning's sonnets are Portuguese. They are only set to Slavic melodies."
Text Authorship:
- by Stanislaus Eric Stenbock, Count (1860 - 1895), "Ja vas ljubíl", appears in The Shadow of Death. A Collection of Poems, Songs, and Sonnets, in 1. Slavic Songs, no. 4, first published 1893 [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 Henry Balfour Gardiner (1877 - 1950), "Ah sweet! those eyes, that used to be so tender", 1895, first performed 1977 [ voice and piano ], revised 1932 [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2022-01-10
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