Song Cycle by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968)

?. My heart is like a singing bird

Authorship

by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) , "A birthday"

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My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a watered shoot;
My heart is like an apple tree
Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a purple sea;
My heart is gladder than all these
Because my love is come to me.

Raise me a dais of [silk and down]1;
Hang it with vair and purple dyes;
Carve it in doves and pomegranates,
And peacocks with a hundred eyes;
Work it in gold and silver grapes,
In leaves and silver fleur-de-lys;
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love, is come to me.

?. Remember me

Authorship

by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) , "Remember", from Goblin Market and other Poems, published 1862

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Available translations (or transliterations, if applicable):

ITA Italian (Ferdinando Albeggiani)
GER German (Bertram Kottmann)

Remember me when I am gone away,
  Gone far away into the silent land;
  When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day
  You tell me of our future that you planned:
  Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
  And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
  For if the darkness and corruption leave
  A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
  Than that you should remember and be sad.

?. Sing no sad songs for me

Authorship

by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) , "Song", from Goblin Market and other Poems, published 1862

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Available translations (or transliterations, if applicable):

GER German (Bertram Kottmann)

When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me;
Plant thou no roses at my head,
Nor shady cypress tree:
Be the green grass above me
With showers and dewdrops wet;
And if thou wilt, remember,
And if thou wilt, forget.

I shall not see the shadows,
I shall not feel the rain;
I shall not hear the nightingale
Sing on, as if in pain:
And dreaming through the twilight
That doth not rise nor set,
Haply I may remember,
And haply may forget.

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