by Anne Hunter (1742 - 1821)
O tuneful voice
Language: English
O tuneful voice I still deplore, Thy accents, which I hear no more, Still vibrate on my heart. In Echo's cave I long to dwell And still to hear that sad farewell When we were forced to part. Bright eyes! O that the task were mine To guard the liquid fires that shine And round your orbits play, To watch them with a vestal's care, To feed with smiles a light so fair That it may ne'er decay.
Authorship:
- by Anne Hunter (1742 - 1821) [author's text not yet checked 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 (Franz) Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809), "O tuneful voice", Hob. XXVIa no. 42 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "O mooie stem", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Ô voix mélodieuse", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 78