O do not love too long (Yeats, set by N. Rorem, R. Warren, R. Warren) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Sweetheart, do not love too long:
I loved long and long, 
And grew to be out of fashion
Like an old song. 

All through the years of our youth
Neither could have known 
Their own thought from the other's,
We were so much at one. 

But O, in a minute he changed --
O do not love too long, 
Or you will grow out of fashion
Like an old song.

Input by John Versmoren

Authorship

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

In the Seven Woods

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

Ned Rorem (1923-)

Raymond Warren (1928-)

Songs of Old Age

Raymond Warren (1928-)

The Pity of Love

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