by Arthur Symons (1865 - 1945)
The sick heart
Language: English
O sick heart, be at rest! Is there nothing that I can do To quiet your crying in my breast? Will nothing comfort you? "I am sick of a malady There is but one thing can assuage: Cure me of youth, and, see, I will be wise in age!"
Authorship:
- by Arthur Symons (1865 - 1945), appears in Poems of Arthur Symons, Volume 2, in The Loom of Dreams, first published 1901 [author's text not yet checked 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 Peter Warlock (1894 - 1930), "The sick heart", 1925, published 1928 [ voice and piano ], from Two Songs of Arthur Symons, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 49