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by Robert Seymour Bridges (1844 - 1930)

When Death to either shall come
Language: English 
[When]1 Death to either shall come, -
I pray it be first to me,-
Be happy as ever at home,
If so, as I wish, it be.

Possess thy [heart]2, my own;
And sing to the child on thy knee,
[Or]3 read to thyself alone
The songs [that I]4 made for thee.

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•   I. Gurney 

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1 Gurney: "If"
2 Gurney: "soul"
3 Gurney: "And"
4 Gurney: "I have"

Text Authorship:

  • by Robert Seymour Bridges (1844 - 1930), no title, appears in New Poems, first published 1899 [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 Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (1890 - 1937), "When Death to either shall come", 1920, published 1938 [ voice and piano ], from A First Volume of Ten Songs, no. 9, London: Oxford University Press [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Muriel Emily Herbert (1897 - 1984), "When Death to either shall come", 1923, published 1923 [ voice and piano ], London : Augener confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Sidney Homer (1864 - 1953), "When Death to either shall come", op. 34 (Four Modern Poems) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Monroe Young , "When Death to either shall come", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this page: David K. Smythe

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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