Bid adieu | Bid adieu, adieu, adieu

by James Joyce (1882 - 1941)

Bid adieu, adieu, adieu

Language: English

Our translations: FRE

Bid adieu, adieu, adieu, 
  Bid adieu to girlish days, 
Happy love is come to woo 
  Thee and woo thy girlish ways - 
The zone that doth become thee fair, 
The snood upon thy yellow hair. 

When thou hast heard his name upon 
  The bugles of the cherubim 
Begin thou softly to unzone 
  Thy girlish bosom unto him 
And softly to undo the snood 
That is the sign of maidenhood.

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Text Authorship:

by James Joyce (1882 - 1941), no title, appears in Chamber Music, no. 11, first published 1907 [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 David Arditti (b. 1964), no title, op. 20 no. 8 (1998) [ tenor and string quartet ], from Chamber Music, no. 8 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Israel Citkowitz (1909 - 1974), "Bid adieu", published 1930 [ voice and piano ], from Five Songs from "Chamber Music", no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
by David Leo Diamond (1915 - 2005), "Bid adieu, adieu, adieu", published 1938 [ four-part chorus a cappella ], from Three Madrigals, madrigal [sung text not yet checked]
by Ross Lee Finney (1906 - 1997), "Bid adieu, adieu, adieu ", 1952, published 1985, first performed 1975 [ voice and piano ], from Chamber Music, no. 11, Henmar Press [sung text not yet checked]
by Edmund Pendleton (1899 - 1987), "Bid adieu", published 1949 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Barry Seaman (b. 1946), "Bid adieu", 1981 [ voice and piano ], from Chamber Music Book I, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
by Rick Sowash (b. 1950), "Bid adieu", 1973 [ STB chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 68