Inclusions

Oh, wilt thou have my hand, Dear, to lie along in thine?
As a little stone in a running stream, it seems to lie and pine.
Now drop the poor pale hand, Dear, unfit to plight with thine.

Oh, wilt thou have my cheek, Dear, drawn closer to thine own?
My cheek is white, my check is worn, by many a tear run down.
Now leave a little space, Dear, lest it should wet thine own.

Oh, must thou have my soul, Dear, commingled with thy soul? -
Red grows the cheek, and warm the hand; the part is in the whole;
Nor hands nor cheeks keep separate, when soul is joined to soul.

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) , "Inclusions", from Poems, published 1850

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

by Johan Backer-Lunde (1874-1958) , "Inclusions" [voice and orchestra]
by Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944) , "When soul is joined to soul", op. 62, published 1905. [high voice and piano]
by Carl Reinhold Busch (1862-1943) , "Inclusions", published 1899. [voice and piano]
by Dot Echols , "Inclusions", 1925.
by (Mary Ann) Virginia Gabriel (1825-1877) , "Oh, wilt thou have my hand, Dear" [high voice and piano]
by Karl Miller (1871-) , "Inclusions", published 1903. [voice and piano]
by Elizabeth Philp (1827-1885) , "Inclusion" [high voice and piano]
by T. C. L. Pritchard , "O wilt thou have my hand", published c1925 [voice and piano], from Six Songs
by Herbert Stothart (1885-1949) , "Wilt thou have my hand", published 1934, stanza 1. [voice and spinet]
by Bryceson Treharne (1879-1948) , "Renunciation", published 1917 [voice and piano], from Songs
by Kate Vannah (1855-1933) , "Questionings", published 1894. [soprano and piano]
by Joseph Williams (1847-1924) , "Inclusions", published 1905 [voice and piano], from Eight Songs (5th set), under the pseudonym Florian Pascal

Date added to the website: 2007-12-12.

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