by William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
Language: English
She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love: A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! -- Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me!
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Text Authorship:
- by William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850), "Lucy II", written 1802, appears in Lyrical Ballads [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 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875 - 1912), "Lucy", op. 29 (Three Songs) no. 1 (1898), published 1898 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nigel Dodd , "Lucy II" [ bass or baritone, piano ], from The Lucy Poems: A Song Cycle for Bass-Baritone and Piano, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nick Peros (b. 1963), "She dwelt among the untrodden ways" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by P(atrick) Peter Sacco (b. 1928), "She dwelt among untrodden ways", published 1971 [ voice and piano ], Western International Music [sung text checked 1 time]
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Word count: 71