by Sidney Arthur Kilworth Keyes (1922 - 1943)
O never trust the heart's assurance
Language: English
O never trust the heart's assurance - Trust only the heart's fear. And what I'm saying is, Go back, my lovely - Though you will never hear. O never trust your pride of movement - Trust only pride's distress. The only holy limbs are the broken fingers Still raised to praise and bless. For the careless heart is bound with chains And terribly cast down: The beast of pride is hunted out And baited through the town.
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Text Authorship:
- by Sidney Arthur Kilworth Keyes (1922 - 1943), "Song: The heart's assurance", appears in The Collected Poems of Sidney Keyes, first published 1945 [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 Michael Tippett (1905 - 1998), "The heart's assurance", 1950-1951, published 1951 [ high voice and piano ], from The Heart's Assurance, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
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