by James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
O moonlight deep and tender
Language: English
Our translations: CHI
O moonlight deep and tender, A year and more agone, Your mist of golden splendor Round my betrothal shone! O elm-leaves dark and dewy, The very same ye seem, The low wind trembles through ye, Ye murmur in my dream! O river, dim with distance, Flow thus forever by, A part of my existence Within your heart doth lie! O stars, ye saw our meeting, Two beings and one soul, Two hearts so madly beating To mingle and be whole! O happy night, deliver Her kisses back to me, Or keep them all, and give her A blisslul dream of me!
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Text Authorship:
- by James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891), "Song", from Poems, first published 1844 [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 Roy Ewing Agnew (1893 - 1944), "O moonlight deep and tender", published 1913 [ voice and piano ], from Two Songs for Medium Voice, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by ?, Mrs. George E. Aiken , "O moonlight deep and tender", published 1883 [ voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , "Betrothal", published 1865, note: composer has initials S. D. S. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Florence Aylward (1862 - 1950), "O moonlight deep and tender", published 1905 [ voice, violin, piano, organ and harmonium ], London : Chappell & Co. Ltd. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carl Reinhold Busch (1862 - 1943), "O moonlight deep and tender", published 1902 [ mixed chorus ], partsong [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henry Leland Clarke (1907 - 1992), "Moonlight deep and tender", published 1921 [ high voice or medium voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ferdinand Luis Dunkley (1869 - 1956), "O moonlight deep and tender", published 1897 [ high voice or low voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Goldbeck (1839 - 1908), "O moonlight deep and tender", 1870 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Elizabeth Philp (1827 - 1885), "O moonlight deep and tender", published 1855 [ voice and piano ], from Six Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Shepherd (1880 - 1958), "Nocturne", op. 7 (Five Songs) no. 2, published 1909 [ high voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Somervell, Sir (1863 - 1937), "O moonlight deep and tender", published 1892 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Lucien H. Southard (1827 - 1881), "O moonlight deep and tender", published 1855 [ voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Samuel Prowse Warren (1841 - 1915), "O moonlight deep and tender", published 1868 [ voice and piano ], from Two Songs [sung text not yet checked]
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Word count: 101