by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836 - 1907)
It was with doubt and trembling
Language: English
It was with doubt and trembling I whispered in her ear. Go, take her answer, bird-on-bough, That all the world may hear -- Sweetheart, sigh no more! Sing it, sing it, tawny throat, Upon the wayside tree, How fair she is, how true she is, How dear she is to me -- Sweetheart, sigh no more! Sing it, sing it, tawny throat, And through the summer long The winds among the clover-tops And brooks, for all their silvery stops, Shall envy you the song -- Sweetheart, sigh no more!
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Text Authorship:
- by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836 - 1907), appears in Wyndham Towers, first published 1890 [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 Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867 - 1944), "Sweetheart, sigh no more", op. 14 (Four Songs) no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Frank Herbert Brackett , "Sweetheart, sigh no more", published 1892 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frederic Field Bullard (1864 - 1904), "Sweetheart, sigh no more" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mary Grant Carmichael (1851 - 1935), "Sweetheart, sigh no more", published 1898 [ voice and piano ], from Three Songs with Piano Accompaniment, no. 2, New York: G. Schirmer [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Henshaw Dana (1846 - 1883), "It was with doubt and trembling", published 1877 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carlo Ferrero , "It was with doubt and trembling", published 1886 [sung text not yet checked]
- by William L. Glover , "Sweetheart, sigh no more" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Fonteyn Manney (1872 - 1951), "Sweetheart, sigh no more", published 1898 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles I. Young , "Sweetheart, sigh no more", published 1890 [sung text not yet checked]
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Word count: 86