by Nelle Richmond Eberhart (1871 - 1944)
Thou wouldst not stay
Language: English
White-armed Nausicaä sighed Beside the misty deep: "Thou wouldst not stay, thou goodly stranger, The dark abyss hath borne thee far. And, oh, my heart aches fearing thee in danger Where lost horizons are. "Here where we met I come at even, One word from ocean's deep to crave. I hear a seabird's cry from the wide heaven! The sob of lonely wave!"
Text Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Charles Wakefield Cadman (1881 - 1946), "Thou wouldst not stay", subtitle: "Nausicaä's song", op. 50 no. 3, published 1911 [voice and piano], from Three Songs to Odysseus, no. 3, available from Recital Publications, reprinted 1995 [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2010-11-02
Line count: 10
Word count: 64