Sea Slumber Song (Noel, set by E. Elgar) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


 Sea-birds are asleep,
 The world forgets to weep,
 Sea murmurs her soft slumber-song
 On the shadowy sand
 Of this elfin land;

 I, the Mother mild, 
 Hush thee, oh my child,
 Forget the voices wild!
 Hush thee, oh my child,
 Hush thee.

 Isles in elfin light
 Dream, the rocks and caves,
 Lulled by whispering waves,
 Veil their marbles
   Veil their marbles bright.
 Foam glimmers faintly
   faintly white
 Upon the shelly sand
 Of this elfin land;

 Sea-sound, like violins,
 To slumber woos and wins,
 I murmur my soft slumber-song,
	my slumber song
 Leave woes, and wails, and sins.

 Ocean's shadowy might
 Breathes good night,
 Good night...
 Leave woes, and wails, and sins.
 Good night...Good night...
 Good night...

 Good night...

 Good night...  Good night.

Authorship

Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel (1834-1894)

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

Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

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