Evening song | Look off, dear Love, across the sallow sands

Look off, dear Love, across the sallow...

Language: English

Look off, dear Love, across the sallow sands,
And mark yon meeting of the sun and sea,
How long they kiss in sight of all the lands.
Ah! longer, longer, we.

Now in the sea's red vintage melts the sun,
As Egypt's pearl dissolved in rosy wine,
And Cleopatra night drinks all. 'Tis done,
Love, lay thine hand in mine.

Come forth, sweet stars, and comfort heaven's heart;
Glimmer, ye waves, round else unlighted sands.
O night! divorce our sun and sky apart
Never our lips, our hands.

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Text Authorship:

by Sidney Lanier (1842 - 1881), "Evening song", appears in Poems of Sidney Lanier, first published 1884 [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 Dudley Buck (1839 - 1909), "Sunset", op. 76 (Five Songs) no. 4, published 1877 [ contralto or baritone, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Gladys Bumstead, Mrs. (b. 1900), "Look off, Dear Love", published 1926 [ high voice or medium voice and violin obbligato ] [sung text not yet checked]
by John Spencer Camp (1858 - 1946), "Evening song", op. 15 no. 3, published 1903 [ voice and piano ], from Five Songs, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
by Rosslyn L. Colan , "The good night kiss", published 1910 [ voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by (Henry Louis) Reginald De Koven (1859 - 1920), "A love song", published 1896 [sung text not yet checked]
by Maurice B. De Packh (1896 - 1960), "Evening song", published 1927 [ voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by John Woods Duke (1899 - 1984), "Evening song", 1975 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Carl Fallberg (1886 - 1975), "Evening song", published 1917 [ voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Eleanor Everest Freer (1864 - 1942), "Evening song", op. 20 no. 3, published 1907 [ voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884 - 1920), "Evening song", A. 24 (1912 or earlier), published 1941 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Henry Kimball Hadley (1871 - 1937), "Evening song", op. 53 (Three Songs) no. 3, published 1915 [ high voice or medium voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Philip Frederick Wright James (1890 - 1975), "Evening song" [ bass-baritone and piano or orchestra ], from A Sea Symphony, 2nd movement [sung text not yet checked]
by Edward E. Menges , "Evening song", published 1937 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by James H. Rodgers , "Look off, Dear Love", published 1899 [sung text not yet checked]
by Grace W. Root , "A sunset song", published 1891 [sung text not yet checked]
by (George) Alexander Russell (1880 - 1953), "Sunset", published 1910 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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This text was added to the website: 2004-02-11
Line count: 12
Word count: 88