by Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
My star
Language: English
All, that I know Of a certain star Is, it can throw (Like the angled spar) Now a dart of red, Now a dart of blue Till my friends have said They would fain see, too, My star that dartles the red and the blue! Then it stops like a bird; like a flower, hangs furled: They must solace themselves with the Saturn above it. What matter to me if their star is a world? Mine has opened its soul to me; therefore I love it.
Text Authorship:
- by Robert Browning (1812 - 1889), "My star", appears in Men and Women, first published 1855 [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 Evelyn H. Atkins , "My star" [ high voice and violin ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (1868 - 1946), "My star", 1920, published 1920 [ voice and piano ], from Dramatic Lyrics Set I, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867 - 1944), "My star", <<1918 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Benjamin Burrows (1891 - 1966), "My star", 1927 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Helen Archibald Clarke (flourished 1900), "My star", published 1889 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Lulu Jones Downing , "My star", published 1910 [ voice and piano ], from Three songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Eleanor Everest Freer (1864 - 1942), "My star", published 1929 [ baritone and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Eleanor Everest Freer (1864 - 1942), "My star", op. 4 no. 2, published 1905 [ voice and piano ], from A Book of Songs, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Hall (1903 - 1982), "My star", 1950, first performed 1950 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mildred J. Hill (1859 - 1916), "My star", published 1898 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sidney Homer (1864 - 1953), "My star", op. 12 (Three Poems of Browning) no. 1, published 1902 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by A. F. Millar , "My star", published 1915 [ low voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by William Harold Neidlinger (1863 - 1924), "My star", published 1895 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], from Songs and Ballads [sung text not yet checked]
- by Emiliano Renaud (1875 - 1932), "My star", published 1914 [ high voice and piano ], from Four songs by Robert Browning [sung text not yet checked]
- by Clara Kathleen Rogers (1844 - 1931), "My star", op. 32 no. 1, published 1900 [ high voice and piano ], from Browning songs (Second Series), no. 1, Boston : Arthur P. Schmidt and Co. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Leo Smith (1881 - 1952), "My star", published c1912 [ high voice or medium voice and piano ], from Five songs, Winnipeg and Toronto : Whaley, Royce & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Somervell, Sir (1863 - 1937), "My star", published 1923 [ voice and piano ], from A Broken Arc, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Latham True (1874 - 1945), "My star", published 1932 [ medium voice and piano ], from Browning songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Thomas) Gerard Victory (1921 - 1995), "My star", 1953 [ tenor, SATB chorus, and orchestra ], from Carmen Stellarum, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by ?, Mrs. J. Eddie Weems , "My star" [ voice and piano ], from The Browning Cycle of Love Lyrics [sung text not yet checked]
- by Thomas Carl Whitmer (1873 - 1959), "My star", op. 3 (Three songs) no. ?, copyright © 1903 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John W. Worth , "My star" [ high voice and piano ], from Twelve Songs by Browning [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2007-06-14
Line count: 13
Word count: 86