by Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845)
The stars are with the voyager
Language: English
The stars are with the voyager Wherever he may sail; The moon is constant to her time; The sun will never fail; But follow, follow round the world, The green earth and the sea; So love is with the lover's heart, Wherever he may be. Wherever he may be, the stars Must daily lose their light; The moon will veil her in the shade; The sun will set at night. The sun may set, but constant love Will shine when he's away; So that dull night is never night, And day is brighter day.
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Text Authorship:
- by Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845), "Song", appears in The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur, and Other Poems, first published 1827 [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 Frances Allitsen (1848 - 1912), "The stars are with the voyager", published 1891 [ voice and piano ], London: Phillips and Page [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Robert) Houston Bright (1916 - 1970), "The stars are with the voyager", published 1959 [ satb chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by George Howard Clutsam (1866 - 1951), "The stars are with the voyager", published 1904 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Eleanor Joanne Daley (b. 1955), "The Stars are with the Voyager" [ men's chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joseph Holbrooke (1878 - 1958), "The stars", op. 30 no. 6 (1904), published 1906 [ high voice and piano ], from Six Romantic Songs, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gustav Holst (1874 - 1934), "The stars are with the voyager" [ Ssatb chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gustav Holst (1874 - 1934), "The stars are with the voyager", 1895 [ satb chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henry Festing Jones (1851 - 1928), "The stars are with the voyager", published 1889 [ voice and piano ], from A Second Set of Six Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alexander Campbell MacKenzie, Sir (1847 - 1935), "The stars are with the voyager", published 1878 [ satb chorus and optional piano ], note: according to Gooch and Thatcher in Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature, this setting is given an erroneous composition date of 1879 in Grove's [sung text not yet checked]
- by Walter Cecil Macfarren (1826 - 1905), "The stars are with the voyager", published c1872 [ TTBB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Montague Fawcett Phillips (1885 - 1969), "The stars are with the voyager", published 1940 [ SSA chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Pointer (d. 1934), "The stars are with the voyager", published 1891 [ four-part chorus of female voices (a cappella?) ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Clara Kathleen Rogers (1844 - 1931), "The stars are with the voyager", op. 34 (Six Folk Songs of Different Nationalities) no. 3, published 1900 [ voice and piano ], Boston : Arthur P. Schmidt and Co. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henry Thomas Smart (1813 - 1879), "The stars are with the voyager", <<1879 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Agnes Marie Jacobina Zimmermann (1847 - 1925), "The stars are with the voyager", published 1868 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2008-01-10
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Word count: 94