by William Blake (1757 - 1827)
Leave, O leave me to my sorrows
Language: English
Leave, O leave me to my sorrows; Here I'll sit and fade away, Till I'm nothing but a spirit, And I lose this form of clay. Then if chance along this forest Any walk in pathless ways, Thro' the gloom he'll see my shadow Hear my voice upon the breeze.
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Text Authorship:
- by William Blake (1757 - 1827), no title, appears in An Island in the Moon, Chapter XI [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 Nicolas Flagello (b. 1928), "Leave, O leave me to my sorrows", 1964, published 1965 [ high voice and piano ], from Songs from William Blake's "An Island in the Moon", no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Scott Gendel (b. 1977), "Hear my voice", 2005 [ soprano and violin ], from Shadow Songs, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Scott Gendel (b. 1977), "Fade away", 2005 [ soprano and violin ], from Shadow Songs, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949), "A song of sorrow", op. 9 (Seven songs) no. 1 (1912) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Olga Mills , "A song of sorrow", published c1927 [ voice and flute or violin ], London : Oxford University Press [sung text not yet checked]
- by Felix Werder (b. 1922), "Leave, O leave me", 1961-2 [ soprano and piano ], from From the Blake Collection, op. 42 and op. 50, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2009-01-29
Line count: 8
Word count: 50