by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 - 1909)
Ask nothing more of me, sweet
Language: English
Ask nothing more of me, sweet, All I can give you I give Heart of my heart, were it more, More would be laid at your feet: Love that should help you to live, Song that should spur you to soar. All things were nothing to give Once to have sense of you more, Touch you and taste of you, sweet, Think you and breathe you and live, Swept of your wings as they soar, Trodden by chance of your feet. I that have love and no more Give you but love of you, sweet; He that hath more, let him give; He that hath wings, let him soar; Mine is the heart at your feet Here, that must love you to live.
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Text Authorship:
- by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 - 1909), "The oblation", appears in Songs Before Sunrise, first published 1871 [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 Hubert Sydney Brown (1898 - 1949), "The oblation", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frederic Hymen Cowen, Sir (1852 - 1935), "Ask nothing more", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Bainbridge Crist (1883 - 1969), "Love's offering", published 1945 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carl Deis (1883 - 1960), "Ask nothing more", published 1943 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Theophilus Julius Henry Marzials (1850 - 1920), "Ask nothing more", published c1935 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Karol Rathaus (1895 - 1954), "The oblation", published 1946 [ high voice or medium voice and piano ], from Three English Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Harriet Ware (1877 - 1962), "The oblation", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-01-27
Line count: 18
Word count: 123