On a poet's lips I slept
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English
On a poet's lips I slept
Dreaming like a love-adept
In the sound his breathing kept;
Nor seeks nor finds he mortal blisses,
But feeds on the aëreal kisses
Of shapes that haunt thought's wildernesses.
He will watch from dawn to gloom
The lake-reflected sun illume
The yellow bees in the ivy-bloom,
Nor heed nor see, what things they be;
But from these create he can
Forms more real than living man,
Nurslings of immortality!
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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)
 by Creighton Allen (1900-1969)
, "The poet's world", published 1928. [medium or high voice, piano]
by Sir Edward Cuthbert Bairstow (1874-1946)
, "On a poet's lips I slept", published 1929. [SSA]
by (William) Havergal Brian (1876-1972)
, "On a poet's lips I slept", 1919.
by (Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
, "On a poet's lips I slept", op. 60 no. 1, from Nocturne for tenor solo, seven obligato instruments and string orchestra, no. 1.
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