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by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
Translation by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Just above yon sandy bar
Language: English 
Just above yon sandy bar,
  As the day grows fainter and dimmer,
Lonely and lovely, a single star
  Lights the air with a dusky glimmer 

Into the ocean faint and far
  Falls the trail of its golden splendor,
And the gleam of that single star
  Is ever refulgent, soft, and tender. 

Chrysaor, rising out of the sea,
  Showed thus glorious and thus emulous,
Leaving the arms of Callirrhoe,
  Forever tender, soft, and tremulous. 

Thus o'er the ocean faint and far
  Trailed the gleam of his falchion brightly;
Is it a God, or is it a star
  That, entranced, I gaze on nightly!

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Text Authorship:

  • by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), "Chrysaor", appears in The Seaside and the Fireside, first published 1850 [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 Carl Reinhold Busch (1862 - 1943), "Song of a star", published 1904 [ TTBB chorus a cappella ], partsong [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Vincent d'Indy (1851 - 1931), "The evening star" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Arthur Finley Nevin (1871 - 1943), "Chrysaor", published 1907 [ SATB chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in Swedish (Svenska), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Emil Sjögren.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2008-06-08
Line count: 16
Word count: 102

Aftonstjernan
Language: Swedish (Svenska)  after the English 
Stormen somnat och vågens brus; 
över jorden sig mörkret sänker. 
Ensam och klar som en fyrbåks ljus 
högt upp i rymden en stjärna blänker.

I det djupa havs nattliga värld, 
över den svallande böljedansen, 
stjärnan klar på sin himmelska färd 
med osäglig prakt sprider strålande glansen.

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Se, hur hon klyver med flammande svärd 
de dunkla, de böljande vatten. 
Är det en vingad Seraf på sin färd? 
Så frågar jag hänryckt i drömmande natten.

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•   E. Sjögren 

E. Sjögren sets stanzas 1-2, 4

Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in English by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), "Chrysaor", appears in The Seaside and the Fireside, first published 1850
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by (Johan Gustaf) Emil Sjögren (1853 - 1918), "Aftonstjernan", 1879, stanzas 1-2,4 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • FRE French (Français) [singable] (Berta Elisabet Sjögren)


Researcher for this page: Johann Winkler

This text was added to the website: 2020-09-28
Line count: 16
Word count: 73

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