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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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Text 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]
  • 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]
  • by Colin McAlpin (1870 - 1942), "Elegy", published 1905 [ voice and piano ], from Ten songs [sung text not yet checked]
  • 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]
  • 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]
  • by ? Wilkins (flourished c1844-1848), "Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom", published c1846 [ SATTB chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Grace Mary Williams (1906 - 1977), "O snatched away in beauty's bloom", 1933 [ tenor and orchestra or piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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 ; composed by Heinrich Bellermann, Carl Loewe.
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  • 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 ; composed by Karl Müller.
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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


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2004-05-08
Line count: 16
Word count: 113

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