Good‑bye in fear, good‑bye in sorrow

"Good-bye in fear, good-bye in sorrow,
	Good-bye, and all in vain,
Never to meet again, my dear" -
	"Never to part again."

"Good-bye today, good-bye tomorrow,
	Good-bye till earth shall wane,
Never to meet again, my dear" -
	"Never to part again."

by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) , no title, from Sing-song: a nursery rhyme book, published 1872

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

by Jean Berger (1909-2002) , "Good-bye", published 1976. [SATB a cappella]
by Ossip (or Iosef) Salomonovich Gabrilovich (1878-1936) , "Good-Bye", op. 2 no. 1. [voice, piano]
by John Ireland (1879-1962) , "Death-parting", 1918, published 1919 [medium voice, piano], from Mother and Child, no. 7.
by Horatio William Parker (1863-1919) , "Good-bye", published 1904 [medium voice and piano], from Four Songs, no. ?

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