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by Robert Seymour Bridges (1844 - 1930)

Awake, my heart, to be loved, awake,...
Language: English 
Awake, my heart, to be loved, [awake, awake!]1
The darkness silvers away, the morn doth break,
It leaps in the sky: unrisen lustres slake
[The o'ertaken]2 moon. Awake, [O heart,]3 awake!
 
She too that loveth awaketh and hopes for thee:
Her eyes already have sped the shades that flee,
Already they watch the path thy feet shall take:
Awake, [O]4 heart, to be loved, [awake]1, awake!
 
And if thou tarry from her, -- if this could be,--
She cometh herself, O heart, to be loved, to thee;
For thee would unashamed herself forsake:
Awake to be loved, my heart, awake, awake!
 
Awake, the land is scattered with light, and see,
Uncanopied sleep is flying [from]5 field and tree;
And blossoming boughs of April in laughter shake
Awake, O heart, to be loved, awake, awake!
 
Lo all things wake and tarry and look for thee:
She looketh and saith, 'O sun, now bring him to me.
Come more adored, [O adored,]1 for his coming's sake,
And awake my heart to be loved: [awake,]1 awake!'

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   F. Allitsen 

F. Allitsen sets stanzas 1-2, 5, 4

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1 omitted by Allitsen
2 Allitsen: "Th'o'ertaken"
3 Allitsen: "my heart, to be loved!"
4 Allitsen: "my"
5 Allitsen: "from lake and"

Text Authorship:

  • by Robert Seymour Bridges (1844 - 1930), no title, appears in The Shorter Poems of Robert Bridges, in 3. Book III, no. 15, London: George Bell & Sons, pages 61-62, first published 1891 [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 Frances Allitsen (1848 - 1912), "Love's victory", published 1905, stanzas 1-2,5,4 [ voice and piano ], from Moods and Tenses (Phases in a Love Drama) - Cycle of Eight Songs, no. 8, London, New York: Boosey & Co. [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2012-08-12
Line count: 20
Word count: 181

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