by John Keats (1795 - 1821)
Shed no tear! oh, shed no tear!
Language: English
Shed no tear! oh, shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.
Weep no more! oh, weep no more!
Young buds sleep in the root's white core.
Dry your eyes! oh, dry your eyes!
For I was taught in Paradise
To ease my breast of melodies, --
Shed no tear.
Overhead! look overhead!
'Mong the blossoms white and red --
Look up, look up! I flutter now
On this fresh pomegranate bough.
See me! 'tis this silvery bill
Ever cures the good man's ill.
Shed no tear! oh, shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.
Adieu, adieu -- I fly -- adieu!
I vanish in the heaven's blue, --
Adieu, adieu!
About the headline (FAQ)
First published in Plymouth and Devonport Weekly Journal, October 1838.Text Authorship:
- by John Keats (1795 - 1821), "The faery bird's song" [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 R. P. Arnold , "A faery song", published [1907] [ soprano or tenor and piano ], London : Novello [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernest Austin , "Shed no tear", published 1910 [ SSAA chorus a cappella ], London : Novello [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edgar Leslie Bainton (1880 - 1956), "Shed no tear", published 1912 [ 2-part chorus and piano ], London : Joseph Williams [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frederick Barry (1876 - 1943), "Faery song", published 1898 [ low voice and piano ], NY : G. Schirmer [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernest Birch , "Shed no tear", published [1889] [ high voice and piano ], from Five Songs, London : John & James Hopkinson [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rutland Boughton (1878 - 1960), "Shed no tear", 1901 [ voice and piano ], from Four Faery Songs, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by J. Clarence Chambers , "Shed no tear", 1936 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Harvey Clements (b. 1910), "Faery song", published 1957 [ SSA chorus and piano ], partsong; London : Ascherberg, Hopwood, and Crew [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rosslyn L. Colman , "Shed no tear", published 1910 [ medium voice and piano ], Edinburgh : Paterson's Publications [sung text not yet checked]
- by George Drinkwater (1880 - ?), "Shed no tear", published 1920 [ voice and piano ], London : Chappell [sung text not yet checked]
- by George Dyson (1883 - 1964), "Fairy song", published 1923 [ 2-part chorus and piano ], London : Deane [sung text not yet checked]
- by Christopher Montague Edmunds (1899 - 1990), "Shed no tear!", published 1927 [ SS chorus and piano ], London : Curwen [sung text not yet checked]
- by William J. Fenney (1891 - ?), "Shed no tear", published 1920 [ high voice and piano ], London : Boosey & Hawkes [sung text not yet checked]
- by E. N. Hay , "Shed no tear", published 1923 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], London : Stainer & Bell [sung text not yet checked]
- by Clarence S. Hill , "Shed no tear! O shed no tear!", published 1907 [ soprano and piano ], from Five Songs by Keats, London : Novello [sung text not yet checked]
- by Imogen Clare Holst (1907 - 1984), "Shed no tear", published 1951 [ SSA chorus and harp or piano ], from Welcome joy and welcome sorrow, London : Oxford University Press [sung text not yet checked]
- by Franklin Hopkins (1879 - ?), "Faery song", published 1913 [ voice and piano ], from Keats Album, NY : H. W. Gray [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henry Holden Huss (1862 - 1953), "Shed no tear", published 1950 [ medium voice and piano ], NY : The Composers Press [sung text not yet checked]
- by Thomas C. Kelly (b. 1917), "Shed no tear", 1948 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hugh F. MacColl , "Shed no tear!", published 1949 [ voice and piano ], from Two Keats Songs, Providence : Axelrod [sung text not yet checked]
- by N. W. McPherson , "A faery song", published 1950 [ SATB chorus and piano ], London : Chappell [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Orlando Morgan (1865 - ?), "Shed no tear", published 1902 [ alto and piano ], from In Fairyland, London : Augener [sung text not yet checked]
- by William Reginald Pasfield (1909 - 1994), "Faery song", published 1962 [ SS chorus and piano ], London : Joseph Williams [sung text not yet checked]
- by Boleyne Reeves , "Shed no tear", published [1870?] [ medium voice and piano ], London : Purday [sung text not yet checked]
- by Bernard Rogers (1893 - 1968), "A faery song", published 1966 [ SSAA chorus a cappella ], Bryn Mawr : Theodore Presser [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alec Rowley (1892 - 1958), "Faery song", published 1937 [ SSA chorus and piano (?) ], London : Joseph Williams [sung text not yet checked]
- by Kurt Schindler (1882 - 1935), "Faery song", op. 11 (Three songs) no. 2, published 1908 [ voice and piano ], NY : G. Schirmer [sung text not yet checked]
- by Vally Weigl, née Pick (c1894 - 1982), "Fairy song", 1944 [ SSA chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by George Elbridge Whiting (1840 - 1923), "Shed no tear!", 1873 [ SATB chorus and piano ad libitum ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Biscoe Hale Wortham , "Shed no tear", published [1898] [ voice and piano ], London : Vincent [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2010-12-27
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