by Robert Seymour Bridges (1844 - 1930)
Love on my heart from heaven fell
Language: English
Love on my heart from heaven fell, Soft as the dew on flow'rs of Spring, Sweet as the hidden drops that swell Their honey-throated chalicing. Now never from him do I part, Hosana evermore I cry, I taste his savour in my heart, And bid all praise him as do I. Without him noughtsoever is, Nor was... afore, nor e'er shall be: Nor any other joy than his Wish I for mine to comfort me.
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Text Authorship:
- by Robert Seymour Bridges (1844 - 1930), no title, appears in The Shorter Poems of Robert Bridges, first published 1890 [author's text not yet checked 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 (Francis) Clive Saville Carey (1883 - 1968), "Love on my heart from heaven fell", published <<1957 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949), "Love on my heart from heaven fell", 1935 [ women's chorus a cappella ], from Five Part-Songs for Women's Choir, Set I [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gustav Holst (1874 - 1934), "Love on my heart from heaven fell", op. 44 no. 6, H. 162 no. 6, published 1926, 1974 [ soprano, SSA chorus, and strings ], from Seven Partsongs, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Robin Humphrey Milford (1903 - 1959), "Love on my heart", op. 36 no. 4 (1933), published 1933 [ voice and piano ], London: Novello & Co. [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Mark Raphael (b. 1900), "Love on my heart from heaven fell", published 1936 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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