by Richard Le Gallienne (1866 - 1947)
For lack and love of you, love
Language: English
For lack and love of you, love, I pine the long days through ; I waste the powers Of the rich hours, For lack and love of you. For lack and love of you, love, All life is grown untrue ; O I squander And wander, For lack and love of you. For lack and love of you, love, I grow myself untrue ; I am drowning, Drowning, drowning. For lack and love of you.
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Text Authorship:
- by Richard Le Gallienne (1866 - 1947), no title, appears in New Poems, first published 1910 [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 Hermann Frederic Löhr (1872 - 1943), "For lack and love of you", published 1905 [ voice and piano ], from Two little love songs [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2011-02-14
Line count: 15
Word count: 72