Louis Campbell-Tipton: Four Sea Lyrics (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


The sea lies quieted beneath
The after sunset flush
That leaves upon the heap'd grey clouds
The grapes faint purple blush.

Pale, from a little space in heaven
Of delicate ivory.
The sickle moon and one gold star
Look down upon the sea.

2. Darkness

Language: English

Authorship

Arthur Symons (1865-1945)


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3. The crying of water

Language: English

Authorship

Arthur Symons (1865-1945)

Poems of Arthur Symons, Volume 2

The Loom of Dreams

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FRE

French


O Water, voice of my heart,
Crying in the sand, 
All night long crying
with mournful cry.
As I lie and listen,
and cannot understand
The voice of my heart in my side,
or the voice of the sea.
O water, water,
crying for rest,
Is it I? is it I?
All night long 
The water is crying to me.

4. Requies

Language: English

Authorship

Arthur Symons (1865-1945)

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At Dieppe

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O is it death or life that sounds
Like something strangely known
In this subsiding out of strife,
This low sea monotone?

A sound scarce heard through sleep
Murmurs as the August bees
That fill the forest hollows deep
About the roots of trees.

O is it death or life, or is it
Hope or memory
That quiets all things with this breath
Of the eternal sea?

Input by T. P. Perrin