by Charles Hanson Towne (1877 - 1949)
So much I love, that I
Language: English
So much I love, that I Faint with the joy I know; Yea, for that love is pierced With the great thorn of woe! So much I love, that I Envy the cup she sips, When over-long it rests On her soft, crimson lips!
About the headline (FAQ)
Confirmed with Charles Hanson Towne, The Quiet Singer And Other Poems, New York, B. W. Dodge & Company, 1908, page 113.
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. 5 [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), "So Much I Love", op. 25 no. 5, published 1911 [ voice and piano ], from A Baghdad lover, no. 5, New York : H.W. Gray [sung text not yet checked]
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