It is not dawn till you awake
Language: English
It is not dawn till you awake And shew your radiant eyes: It is not day, though day may break, Till sunlike you arise. In vain the lark shall pierce the sky To find the heav'n of blue. There is no blue but in your eye, There is no heav'n but you. It is not dusk while yet you keep Those eyelids open wide: It is not night till you're asleep, Then sleeps all else beside. Save one dim distant unloved star That sighs the lightlong through, There is no light where you are far, There is no love but you!
Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Frederick Septimus Kelly (1881 - 1916), "It is not dawn till you awake", 1901 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Peter Rastl [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2022-04-19
Line count: 16
Word count: 101