Mistletoe (Mare, set by C. Gibbs, L. Berkeley, B. Crist, E. Lodge, L. Pattison) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Sitting under the mistletoe
(Pale-green, fairy mistletoe),
One last candle burning low,
All the sleepy dancers gone,
Just one candle burning on,
Shadows lurking everywhere:
Some one came, and kissed me there.

Tired I was; my head would go
Nodding under the mistletoe
(Pale-green, fairy mistletoe);
No footsteps came, no voice, but only,
Just as I sat there, sleepy, lonely,
Stooped in the still and shadowy air
Lips unseen - and kissed me there.

Input by Ted Perry

Authorship

Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)

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

Sir Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989)

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Bainbridge Crist (1883-1969)

Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889-1960)

Ernest L. Lodge

Lee Marion Pattison (1890-1966)

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