Suspiria (Longfellow, set by D. Arditti, A. Blakeway, R. Shee, E. Sjögren, Y. Van Antwerp) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Take them, O Death! and bear away 
  Whatever thou canst call thine own! 
Thine image stamped upon this clay, 
  Doth give thee that, but that alone! 

Take them, O Grave! and let them lie 
  Folded upon thy narrow shelves, 
As garments by the soul laid by, 
  And precious only to ourselves. 

Take them, O Great Eternity! 
  Our little life is but a gust, 
That bends the branches of thy tree, 
  And bends its blossoms in the dust.

Authorship

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

The Seaside and the Fireside

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

David Arditti (1964-)

Amy Blakeway

R. Shee

(Johan Gustaf) Emil Sjögren (1853-1918)

Swedish

Yates Van Antwerp

Two Poems

Set in Swedish, a translation of Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [text unavailable]

(Johan Gustaf) Emil Sjögren (1853-1918)

English

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