by Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803 - 1849)
Song on the water
Language: English
As mad sexton's bell, tolling
For earth's loveliest daughter,
Night's dumbness breaks rolling
Ghostily:
So our boat breaks the water
Witchingly.
As her look the dream troubles
Of her tearful-eyed lover,
So our sails in the bubbles
Ghostily
Are mirrored, and hover
Moonily.
Text Authorship:
- by Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803 - 1849), "Song on the water", appears in The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, first published 1851 [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 Christopher Roland Brown (b. 1943), "Song on the water", op. 32 no. ? (1971), published 1973 [vocal duet for soprano and alto with oboe and violoncello], from The Snows of Winter, London : Oxford University Press [text not verified]
- by Peter Russell Naylor (b. 1933), "Song on the water", 1957, first performed 1959. [baritone and piano] [text not verified]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2010-04-29
Line count: 12
Word count: 43