by Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803 - 1849)
How many times do I love thee, dear?
Language: English
How many times do I love thee, dear?
Tell me how many thoughts there be
In the atmosphere
Of a new-fall'n year,
Whose white and sable hours appear
The latest flake of Eternity: --
So many times do I love thee, dear.
How many times do I love again?
Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from the tumbling main,
And threading the eye of a yellow star: --
So many times do I love again.
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Text Authorship:
- by Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803 - 1849), no title, appears in The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, in Torrismond, 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 Denis ApIvor (1916 - 2004), "How many times do I love thee, dear?", 1954, first performed 1954 [ high voice and piano ], from Songs of Thomas Lovell Beddoes [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mervyn Burtch (b. 1929), "How many times", 1966, first performed 1968 [ soprano and piano ], from Three Poems of T. L. Beddoes [sung text not yet checked]
- by Bainbridge Crist (1883 - 1969), "Tell me", published 1917 [ voice and piano ], NY : Carl Fischer [sung text not yet checked]
- by James Philip Dunn (1884 - 1936), "How many times do I love thee, dear?", published c1925-9 [ high voice and piano ], NY : G. Schirmer [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Edmunds (1913 - 1986), "How many times do I love thee, dear", 1940, published 1975 [ voice and piano ], from Hesperides: Fifty Songs by John Edmunds -- or The Fortunate Isles [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Foote (1853 - 1937), "How many times do I love thee, dear", published 1919 [ voice and piano ], Boston : Schmidt [sung text not yet checked]
- by (James Randolph) Courtenay Gale , "How many times do I love thee, dear", published 1897 [ voice and piano ], London : A. Weekes ; in An English Series of Original Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by William Martin Yeates Hurlstone (1876 - 1906), "How many times do I love thee?", published 1900, first performed 1901 [ soprano and piano ], London : Forsyth [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Gilbert Spross (1874 - 1961), "How many times do I love thee, dear", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ], NY : Church [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frank Edwin Ward (1872 - 1953), "How many times do I love thee", published 1902 [ voice and piano ], NY : H. W. Gray [sung text not yet checked]
- by Benjamin E. Woolf (1836 - 1901), "How many times do I love thee, dear", 1884 [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2010-04-29
Line count: 14
Word count: 82