by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
The Wish
Language: English
As sleeps the dreaming Eve below, Its holiest star keeps ward above, And yonder wave begins to glow, Like friendship bright'ning into Love! Ah, would thy bosom were that stream, Ne'er wooed save by the virgin air! — Ah, would that I were that star, whose beam Looks down and finds its image there!
Confirmed with Edward Bulwer Lytton, Paul Clifford, London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830, pages 262-263.
Text Authorship:
- by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873), "The Wish", appears in Paul Clifford [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Gustav Pfizer (1807 - 1890) and by Friedrich Rotter ; composed by Eduard Hanslick.
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