by Charles Hanson Towne (1877 - 1949)
The praises of her beauty I shall sing
Language: English
The praises of her beauty I shall sing, Yea, though her beauty be my suffering! Lo! one to me hath come and softly said, "O thou who with Love's sorrowing hast bled, "Rise! Here is Life's great music, Life's guitar, Luring thy soul to some exquisite star!" And I have said, "How can my poor heart sing, Since I have left Love's sharp and ceaseless sting?"
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Confirmed with Charles Hanson Towne, The Quiet Singer And Other Poems, New York, B. W. Dodge & Company, 1908, page 111.
Text Authorship:
- by Charles Hanson Towne (1877 - 1949), no title, appears in The Quiet Singer and Other Poems, in Songs out of the Orient, in 84. A Baghdad Lover (Being Certain Fragments from Scheherazade’s Songs in “The Thousand and One Nights”), no. 3 [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 Blair Fairchild (1877 - 1933), "The Praises of Her Beauty", op. 25 no. 3, published 1911 [ voice and piano ], from A Baghdad lover, no. 3, New York : H.W. Gray [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2023-02-03
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