by Arthur Christopher Benson (1862 - 1925)
In a College Garden
Language: English
Birds, that cry so loud in the old, green, bowery garden, Your song is of Love ! Love ! Love ! Will ye weary not nor cease ? For the loveless soul grows sick, the heart that the grey days harden ; I know too well that ye love ! I would ye should hold your peace ! I too have seen Love rise, like a star ; I have marked his setting ; I dreamed in my folly and pride that Life without Love were peace. But if Love should await me yet, in the land of sleep and forgetting — Ah, bird, could you sing me this, I would not your song should cease !
Text Authorship:
- by Arthur Christopher Benson (1862 - 1925), "In a College Garden" [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 John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "In a College Garden", op. 309 (1951) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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