Music (Shelley, set by M. Tippett) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


 I pant for the music which is divine,
 My heart in its thirst is a dying flower;
 Pour forth the sound like enchanted wine,
 Loosen the notes in a silver shower;
 Like a herbless plain for the gentle rain,
 I gasp, I faint, till they wake again.
 Let me drink of the spirit of that sweet sound,
 More, O more! I am thirsting yet,
 It loosens the serpent which care has bound
 Upon my heart, to stifle it:
 The dissolving strain, through every vein,
 Passes into my heart and brain.

Authorship

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

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

Michael Tippett (1905-1998)

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