by Mary Coleridge (1861 - 1907)
There
Language: English
There, in that other world, what waits for me? What shall I find after that other birth? No stormy, tossing, foaming, smiling sea, But a new earth. No sun to mark the changing of the days, No slow, soft falling of the alternate night, No moon, no star, no light upon my ways, Only the Light. No gray cathedral, wide and wondrous fair, That I may tread where all my fathers trod. Nay, nay, my soul, no house of God is there, But only God.
Text Authorship:
- by Mary Coleridge (1861 - 1907), "There", appears in Poems, no. 201, first published 1907 [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 Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (1848 - 1918), "There", 1908, published 1909 [voice and piano], from the collection English Lyrics, Ninth Set, no. 7. [text verified 1 time]
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Word count: 85