There is sweet music here that softer...

There is sweet music here that softer falls
Than petals from blown roses on the grass,
Or night-dews on still waters between walls
Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass;
Music that gentlier on the spirit lies,
Than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes;
Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies.
Here are cool mosses deep,
And thro' the moss the ivies creep,
And in the stream the long-leaved flowers weep,
And from the craggy ledge the poppy hangs in sleep.

by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) , no title, from Poems, in The Lotos-Eaters, Choric Song no. 1, 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 Edgar Leslie Bainton (1880-1956) , "There is sweet music here", published 1913. [SS and piano]
by (Robert) Houston Bright (1916-1970) , "Soliloquy", published 1970. [SSAATTBB a cappella]
by Benjamin Burrows (1891-1966) , "There is sweet music here", published 1917 [soprano or tenor and piano], from Three Songs
by Eugene Sanders Butler (1935-) , "Music here", published 1973. [SATB chorus and piano]
by Patricia Cartwright , "There is sweet music here", published 1957. [two-part women's or children's chorus and piano]
by Stephen Chatman (1950-) , "There is sweet music here", 1984 [SATB choir and oboe (or flute, or violin, or clarinet)], from There is sweet music here, no. 1.
by John Harvey Clements (1910-) , "There is sweet music here", published 1960. [SSA and piano]
by Anthony Vincent Benedictus Collins (1893-1963) , "Indolence", published 1929. [voice and piano]
by Brian Blyth Daubney (1929-) , "There is sweet music here", 1951. [soprano or tenor and piano]
by John Duro , "There is sweet music here", published 1972. [SATB and piano]
by Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934) , "There is sweet music", op. 53 no. 1, published 1908. [SSAATTBB chorus a cappella]
by (Robert) Norman Fulton (1909-1980) , "There is sweet music here", published 1965 [SSA and piano], from Songs in solitude
by Alan Gibbs (1932-) , "There is sweet music here", 1963 [SATB, strings (no violins), and organ], from A Musical Homage
by John Tasker Howard (1890-1964) , "There is sweet music here", published 1923. [medium voice and piano]
by Kenneth Blanchard Klaus (1923-) , "There is sweet music here", published c1967. [soprano and piano]
by Paul Koepke , "There is sweet music here", published 1957. [SSATBB a cappella]
by Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918) , "The Choric Song from "The Lotos Eaters"", published 1892. [soprano, SATB chorus, and orchestra]
by William Reginald Pasfield (1909-) , "There is sweet music here", published 1966. [two-part women's or children's chorus and piano]
by Paul Paviour (1931-) , "There is sweet music here", published 1975. [high voice and piano]
by Charles Proctor (1906-) , "There is sweet music here", published 1945. [SATB a cappella]
by Alfred Reed (1921-) , "Choric Song", published 1966. [SATB with divisi, wind ensemble or small concert band]
by Richard Stoker (1938-) , "There is sweet music here", published 1972 [high voice and piano], from Music that brings sweet sleep
by Rudolph Werther (1896-?) , "From "Lotus eaters"", 1945-70 [voice and piano], note: [sic] on title
by L. J. White , "There is sweet music", published 1952. [SATB a cappella]

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