by Walter Savage Landor (1775 - 1864)
Mild is the parting year, and sweet
Language: English
Mild is the parting year, and sweet The odour of the falling spray; Life passes on more rudely fleet, And balmless is its closing day. I wait its close, I court its gloom, But mourn that never must there fall Or on my breast or on my tomb The tear that would have soothed it all.
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Text Authorship:
- by Walter Savage Landor (1775 - 1864), no title, appears in Gebir, Count Julian, and Other Poems, in Ianthe, first published 1831 [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 Bernard van Dieren (1887 - 1936), "Mild is the parting year", 1926, published 1927 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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