by William Ernest Henley (1849 - 1903)
Dearest, when I am dead
Language: English
"Dearest, when I am dead, Make one last song for me: Sing what I would have said -- Righting life's wrong for me. "Tell them how, early and late, Glad ran the days with me, Seeing how goodly and great, Love, were your ways with me."
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Text Authorship:
- by William Ernest Henley (1849 - 1903), no title, appears in Hawthorn and Lavender with Other Verses, in Hawthorn and Lavender, no. 40, first published 1901 [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 Carl Rossini Diton (1886 - 1962), "Entreaty", published 1946 [ voice and piano ], New York, Edward E. Marks Corporation; in the collection Negro art songs, album by contemporary composers for voice and piano [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (1890 - 1937), "Dearest, when I am dead", 1908 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sidney Homer (1864 - 1953), "Dearest", op. 24, published 1910 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frank Lambert , "Dearest, when I am dead", published 1904 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Albert Lidgey (d. 1924), "Dearest, when I am dead", published 1909 [ voice and piano ], from A Song of Life [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2007-06-14
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Word count: 45