by Matthew Prior (1667 - 1721)
Absence
Language: English
I What a tedious day is past! Loving, thinking, wishing, weeping; Gods! if this be not the last, Take a life not worth my keeping. II Love, ye gods, is life alone! In the length is little pleasure: Be but ev'ry day our own, We shall ne'er complain of measure.
Confirmed with The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior, Volume 1, London: George Bell & Sons, 1892, pages 274-275.
Text Authorship:
- by Matthew Prior (1667 - 1721), "Absence" [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 Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949), "Absence", op. 126 (Ten Songs in Two Sets of Five Each, Set II) no. 2 (1938) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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