by Charles Hanson Towne (1877 - 1949)
O form to which the palms have lent...
Language: English
O form to which the palms have lent their grace, And all the jasmines given their perfume, What lovelier form goes wandering thro' earth's room? O eyes to which the diamond lends its light, And night its radiant stars, What woman's eyes give forth a fire more bright? O kiss more sweet than honey from her mouth, What woman's kiss is fresher than the South? O to caress thy hair! to feel my heart Thrill against thine! … Then to gaze in thine eyes, And see the stars arise!
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Confirmed with Charles Hanson Towne, The Quiet Singer And Other Poems, New York, B. W. Dodge & Company, 1908, page 116.
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. 8 [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), "Serenade", op. 25 no. 8, published 1911 [ voice and piano ], from A Baghdad lover, no. 8, New York : H.W. Gray [sung text not yet checked]
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Word count: 89