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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

From Your Bright Sparkling Eyes, A...
Language: English 
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From your bright sparkling Eyes, Life’s visions are vanished.
I was undone, its dreams are no more.
Dear friends of my bosom, Why bathed in tears?
Rays, you have, more transparent than the sun.
I go to my fathers Amidst its glory in the rising Day,
None can you equal in your bright array.
 
I welcome the shore, Constant in your calm and unspotted Mind;
which crowns all my hopes, or which buries my cares.
Then farewell my dear, my lov’d daughter,
Equal to all, but will to none Prove kind,
So knowing, seldom one so Young, you’ll Find.
Adieu!
 
Ah! woe’s me that I should Love and conceal,
Long have I wish’d, but never dare reveal,
The last pang in life is in parting from you.
 
Even though severely Loves Pains I feel;
Two Seraphs await me, long shrouded in death.
Xerxes that great, was’t free from Cupids Dart,
And all the greatest Heroes felt the smart,
I will bear them your love on my last parting breath.
Adieu!

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   A. Gordon 

Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked 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 Amy Gordon , "From Your Bright Sparkling Eyes, A Death-Bed Adieu", copyright © 2016 [ 2 sopranos and piano ], MusicSpoke
        Publisher: MusicSpoke [external link]  [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2026-08-29
Line count: 21
Word count: 170

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