Speak to me, my love! (Tagore, set by F. Bridge) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Speak to me, my love! Tell me in words what you sang.
The night is dark. The stars are lost in clouds.
The wind is sighing through the leaves.
I will let loose my hair.
My blue cloak will cling round me like the night.
I will clasp your head to my bosom;
And there in the sweet loneliness murmur on your heart.
I will shut my eyes and listen.
I will not look in your face.
When your words are ended, we will sit still and silent.
Only the trees will whisper in the dark.
[The night will pale.] The day will dawn.
We shall look at each other's eyes and go on our different paths.
Speak to me, my love! Tell me in words what you sang.

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)

Set in German, a translation of Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ENG ITA GER FRE POL

Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942)

Lyrische Symphonie

Set in Italian, a translation of Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ENG ITA GER FRE POL

Franco Alfano (1876-1954)

Set in Polish, a translation of Jan Kasprowicz (1860-1926) ENG ITA GER FRE POL

Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)

Available translations (or transliterations, if applicable):

FRE

French

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