by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892)
She came to the village church
Language: English
She came to the village church, And sat by a pillar alone; An angel watching an urn Wept over her, carved in stone; And once, but once, she lifted her eyes, And suddenly, sweetly, strangely blush'd To find they were met by my [own;]1 And suddenly, sweetly, my heart beat stronger And thicker, until I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone; And thought, is it pride, and mused and sigh'd 'No surely, now it cannot be pride.'
A. Somervell sets lines 1-7
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Maud, and Other Poems. By Alfred Tennyson, D.C.L., Poet Laureate. A New Edition, London: Edward Moxon & Co., Dover Street, 1859.
1 Somervell: "own."Text Authorship:
- by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892), no title, appears in Maud, Part 1, 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 Arthur Somervell, Sir (1863 - 1937), "She came to the village church", published 1898, lines 1-7 [ voice and piano ], from Cycle of Songs from Tennyson's Maud, no. 3, London: Boosey & Hawkes [sung text checked 1 time]
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Line count: 13
Word count: 80