Day after day (Tagore, set by F. Bridge, B. Wegener-Koopman) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Day after day he comes and goes away.
Go, and give him a flower from my hair, my friend.
If he asks who it was that sent it,
I entreat you do not tell him my name
For he only comes and goes away.

He sits on the dust under the tree.
Spread there a seat with flowers and leaves, my friend.
His eyes are sad, and they bring sadness to my heart.
He does not speak what he has in mind;
He only comes and goes away.

Input by Ted Perry

Authorship

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

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Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

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

Frank Bridge (1879-1941)

Bertha Frensel Wegener-Koopman (1874-1953)

Love Songs

Set in Russian, a translation of Anonymous/Unidentified Artist RUS ENG ITA

Mikhail Mikhailovich Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859-1935)

Set in Italian, adapted by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist RUS ENG ITA

Franco Alfano (1876-1954)

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