I did not lose my heart in summer's even (Housman, set by John Woods Duke, John Ramsden Williamson) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936)

I did not lose my heart in summer's even

Language: English

I did not lose my heart in summer's even,
  When roses to the moonrise burst apart:
When plumes were under heel and lead was flying,
  In blood and smoke and flame I lost my heart.

I lost it to a soldier and a foeman,
  A chap that did not kill me, but he tried;
That took the sabre straight, and took it striking
  And laughed and kissed his hand to me and died.

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Authorship

by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936), no title, appears in More Poems, no. 37, first published 1936 [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 John Woods Duke (1899 - 1984), "I lost my heart", 1976 [baritone and piano], Southern/Texas [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by John Ramsden Williamson (1929 - 2015), "I did not lose my heart in summer's even" [baritone and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]

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