The face of all the world is changed, I...

The face of all the world is changed, I think,
Since first I heard the footsteps of thy soul
Move still, oh, still, beside me, as they stole
Betwixt me and the dreadful outer brink
Of obvious death, where I, who thought to sink,
Was caught up into love, and taught the whole
Of life in a new rhythm. The cup of dole
God gave for baptism, I am fain to drink,
And praise its sweetness, Sweet, with thee anear.
The names of country, heaven, are changed away
For where thou art or shall be, there or here;
And this . . . this lute and song . . . loved yesterday,
(The singing angels know) are only dear
Because thy name moves right in what they say.

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) , no title, from Poems, in Sonnets from the Portuguese, no. 7, 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 Guy Booth , "Sonnet from the Portuguese", published 1939. [SATB a cappella]
by Gena Branscombe (1881-1977) , "The face of all the world is changed", published 1907 [medium voice and piano], from Love in a Life, no. 5.
by Louis Cheslock (1898-1981) , "The face of all the world is changed, I think" [mezzo-soprano or tenor and piano]
by Leon Dallin (1918-) , "All the world is changed", 1953, first performed 1953 [SATB chorus a cappella], from Three Songs from the Portuguese, no. ?
by Celius Dougherty (1902-1986) , "The face of all the world is changed, I think", 1975 [soprano and piano], from Eglantine and Ivy, no. ?
by Eleanor Everest Freer (1864-1942) , "The face of all the world is changed, I think", published 1907 [mezzo-soprano and piano], from Sonnets from the Portuguese, no. 7.
by Henry Kimball Hadley (1871-1937) , "The face of all the world has changed", published 1909 [voice and piano], from Five songs, no. ?
by (Charles) Alfred de Kaiser (1872-1917) , "A new rhythm", published 1912 [tenor and piano], from Seven Sonnets from the Portuguese, no. ?
by Oskar Morawetz (1917-) , "Sonnet VII: The face of all the world is changed", 1955 [high voice and piano], from Sonnets from the Portuguese, no. 4.
by Bernard James Naylor (1907-1986) , "The face of all the world is changed, I think", 1948, first performed 1955 [mezzo-soprano and string quartet], from Sonnets from the Portuguese, no. ?
by Carlos Surinach (1915-) , "With thee anear", published 1966 [voice and piano], from Flamenco Meditations, no. ?

by Egon Joseph Wellesz (1885-1974) , "Mir scheint, das Angesicht der Welt verging", published 1935 [soprano and string quartet], from Sonette der Elisabeth Barret-Browning [sic], no. ?

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