An Ariette for Music. To a Lady singing...

As the moon's soft splendor 
O'er the faint, cold starlight of heaven
Is thrown,
So thy voice most tender
To the strings without soul has given
Its own.

The stars will awaken,
Though the moon sleep a full hour later
Tonight: 
No leaf will be shaken
Whilst the dews of thy melody scatter
Delight.

Though the sound overpowers,
Sing again,
With thy sweet voice revealing
A tone of some world far from ours,
Where music and moonlight and feeling
Are one.

by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) , "An Ariette for Music. To a Lady singing to her Accompaniment on the Guitar", published 1832

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

by Juriaan Andriessen (1925-1996) , "Ariette", published 1960 [tenor and piano], from 4 English songs, no. 2.
by Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944) , "Ariette", op. 1 (Four Songs) no. 4, published c1886.
by Gilbert Richard Betjemann (1864-1896) , "As the moon's soft splendour", 1887?, published 1891.
by Herman Brearly , "As the moon's soft splendour", published 1922. [SATB]
by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) , "As the moon's soft splendor", op. 37 no. 5, published 1899.
by Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934) , "In Moonlight", stanzas 1,3.

by George John Bennett (1863-1930) , "To Jane", published 1886, from Twelve Songs Set to Poems of Shelley and Rossetti, no. 2.
by Richard Bruce Faith (1926-) , "The keen stars were twinkling"
by Ned Rorem (1923-) , "To Jane"

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