A spirit flower (Stanton, set by L. Campbell-Tipton) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


 My heart was frozen even as the earth
 That covered ye forever from my sight
 All thoughts of happiness expired at birth
 Within in me naught, but black and starless night
 Down through the winter sunshine snowflakes came,
 All shimmering like to silver butterflies
 They seem to whisper softly thy dear name
 They melted with the teardrops from mine eyes
 But suddenly there bloomed, within that hour
 In my poor heart so seeming dead, a flower
 Whose fragrance in my life shall ever be
 The tender sacred memory of thee

Input by Sallie McKenna

Authorship

B. Martin Stanton

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

Louis Campbell-Tipton (1877-1921)

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