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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]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • CHI Chinese (中文) (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2005-05-07
Line count: 20
Word count: 101

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