Memory, hither come

Memory, hither come
  And tune your merry notes;
And while upon the wind
  Your music floats,

I'll pore upon the stream,
  Where sighing lovers dream,
And fish for fancies as they pass
  Within the watery glass.

I'll drink of the clear stream,
  And hear the linnet's song,
And there I'll lie and dream
  The day along;

And when night comes I'll go
  To places fit for woe,
Walking along the darkened valley,
  With silent melancholy.

by William Blake (1757-1827) , "Memory, hither come", 1783, from Poetical Sketches

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

by Malcolm Henry Arnold (1921-2006) , "Memory, hither come", op. 66 no. 2 (1959), published 1966, from Five William Blake Songs, no. 2.
by Robert Fairfax Birch (1917-) , "Memory", op. 21 no. 2, published c1952.
by Maurice Blower (1894-1982) , "Memory", published c1961. [three-part chorus, piano]
by Hubert Sydney Brown (1898-1949) , "Memory", published 1926, from Two Lyrics, no. 1.
by William Busch (1901-1945) , "Memory", 1943, published 1944.
by Edwin James Nairn Carr (1926-) , "Memory", 1952, from A Blake Cantata, no. ?
by Theodore Ward Chanler (1902-1961) , "Memory", 1919?, published c1946. [medium voice, piano]
by Richard Jackson Cumming (1928-) , "Memory, Hither Come", 1956, published 1966.
by William Edmondstoune Duncan (1866-1920) , "Memory", published 1919, from English Songs.
by Dilys Elwyn-Edwards, née Roberts , "Memory", 1954.
by James Friskin (1886-1967) , "Memory"
by Robert Harvey , "Memory", published 1968.
by John Ireland (1879-1962) , "Memory", 1903, from Songs of a Wayfarer, no. 1.
by John Ireland (1879-1962) , "The darkened valley", published 1921.
by Sergius Kagen (1909-1964) , "Memory", published 1952.
by David Stevenson Kechley , "Memory, hither come", 1974, from Faint Harps and Silver Voices, no. ?
by Frank Lewin (1925-) , "Song: Memory, hither come", published 1960, first performed 1961 [soprano and chamber ensemble], from Innocence and Experience, no. 3, New York, American Composers Alliance
by John Mitchell (1941-) , "Memory, hither come", op. 1 no. 4 (1964/77), from Seven Songs from William Blake, no. 4.
by Daniel Pinkham (1923-) , "Memory", published 1979.
by Roger Quilter (1877-1953) , "Dream Valley", op. 20 no. 1, published 1917, from Three Blake Songs, no. 1.
by Winthrop L. Rogers , "Memory", published 1915.
by Margaret Ada Sutherland (1897-1984) , "Memory", 1973.
by Ronald Tremain (1923-) , "Memory", published 1957.

Date added to the website: 2003-10-12.

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