by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Silent worship
Language: English
Available translation(s): IRI
Did you not hear My Lady Go down the garden singing Blackbird and thrush were silent To hear the alleys ringing... Oh saw you not My Lady Out in the garden there Shaming the rose and lily For she is twice as fair. Though I am nothing to her Though she must rarely look at me And though I could never woo her I love her till I die. Surely you heard My Lady Go down the garden singing Silencing all the songbirds And setting the alleys ringing... But surely you see My Lady Out in the garden there Rivaling the glittering sunshine With a glory of golden hair.
Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, "Silent Worship" [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 Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759) and by Arthur Somervell, Sir (1863 - 1937), "Silent worship", note: this is Somervell's arrangement of Handel's Non lo diro col Labbro [ sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- IRI Irish (Gaelic) [singable] (Gabriel Rosenstock) , "Adhradh ciúin", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Paul Fontenoy
This text was added to the website: 2007-04-29
Line count: 20
Word count: 109