by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom
Language: English
Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom, On thee shall press no ponderous tomb; But on thy turf shall roses rear Their leaves, the earliest of the year; And the wild cypress wave in tender gloom: And oft by yon blue gushing stream Shall sorrow lean her drooping head, And feed deep thought with many a dream, And lingering pause and lightly tread; Fond wretch! as if her step disturbed the dead! Away! we know that tears are vain, That death nor heeds nor hears distress: Will this unteach us to complain? Or make one mourner weep the less? And thou -- who tell'st me to forget, Thy looks are wan, thine eyes are wet.
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Authorship
- by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824), "Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom", appears in Hebrew Melodies, 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 George Vincent Duval , "Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom", published 1830? [high voice and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Horton Harris (b. 1938), "Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom", 1961 [voice and piano], from Three Byron Songs [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Colin McAlpin (1870 - 1942), "Elegy", published 1905 [voice and piano], from Ten songs [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by James Nary , "Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom", published 1876 [voice and piano], from Lord Byron's Hebrew Melodies [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Isaac Nathan (1790 - 1864), "Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom", published 1815, from A Selection of Hebrew Melodies No. I, no. 8 [ sung text checked 1 time]
- by Robert Owens (1925 - 2017), "Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom" [tenor and piano], from Stanzas for Music, no. 3 [ sung text checked 1 time]
- by Bryceson Treharne (1879 - 1948), "Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom", published 1926 [SSA chorus and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Wilkins , "Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom", published c1846 [SATTB chorus and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Grace Mary Williams (1906 - 1977), "O snatched away in beauty's bloom", 1933 [tenor and orchestra or piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Franz Theremin (1780 - 1846) , "Todtenklage", appears in Hebräische Gesänge, first published 1820 FRE ; composed by Heinrich Bellermann, Johann Karl Gottfried Loewe.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Adolf Böttger (1815 - 1870) , "O du! im Schönheitsglanz gepflückt", appears in Hebräische Melodien, no. 8, first published 1841 FRE ; composed by Karl Müller.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Alexis Paulin Pâris) , "O toi, qui nous es ravie dans la fleur de la beauté", appears in Mélodies hébraïques, no. 8
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This text was added to the website: 2004-05-08
Line count: 16
Word count: 113