by Arthur Symons (1865 - 1945)
After love
Language: English
To part now and parting now, Never to meet again; To have done for ever; I and thou, With joy, and so with pain. It is too hard, too hard to meet If we trust love no more; Those other meetings were too sweet That went before. And I would have, now love is over, An end to all, and end: I cannot, having been your lover, Stoop to become your friends!
Text Authorship:
- by Arthur Symons (1865 - 1945), "After love", appears in Silhouettes, first published 1892 [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 Norman Dello Joio (1913 - 2008), "After love", published 1962 [ high voice and piano ], from Three Songs of Adieu, no. 1, Edward B. Marks [sung text not yet checked]
- by Cedric Wilmot Lemont (1879 - 1954), "After love", published <<1940 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Landon Ronald, Sir (1873 - 1938), "After love", published 1919 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2008-07-07
Line count: 12
Word count: 73