by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882)
O leave your hand where it lies cool
Language: English
O leave your hand where it lies cool Upon the eyes whose lids are hot: Its rosy shade is bountiful Of silence, and assuages thought. O lay your lips against your hand And let me feel your breath through it, While through the sense your song shall fit The soul to understand. The music lives upon my brain Between your hands within mine eyes; It stirs your lifted throat like pain, An aching pulse of melodies. Lean nearer, let the music pause: The soul may better understand Your music, shadowed in your hand Now while the song withdraws.
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Text Authorship:
- by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882), "Song and Music" [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 Henry Clough-Leighter (1874 - 1956), "Shadowed in your hand", op. 60 (Two Rossetti Lyrics) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2008-07-11
Line count: 16
Word count: 99