Thy days are done (Byron, set by I. Nathan) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Thy days are done, thy fame begun;
  Thy country's strains record
The triumphs of her chosen Son,
  The slaughters of his sword! 
The deeds he did, the fields he won,
  The freedom he restored! 

Though thou art fall'n, while we are free
  Thou shalt not taste of death! 
The generous blood that flowed from thee
  Disdained to sink beneath:
Within our veins its currents be,
  Thy spirit on our breath! 

Thy name our charging hosts along,
  Shall be the battle-word! 
Thy fall, the theme of choral song
  From virgin voices poured! 
To weep will do thy glory wrong:
  Thou shalt not be deplored.

Authorship

George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824)

Hebrew Melodies

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

Isaac Nathan (1790-1864)

A Selection of Hebrew Melodies No. I

Set in German, a translation of Franz Theremin (1780-1846) GER

Johann Karl Gottfried Loewe (1796-1869)

Hebräische Gesänge

Set in German, a translation of Karl Julius Körner (1793-1873) GER

Robert Alexander Schumann (1810-1856)

3 Gesänge

Set in German, a translation of Adolf Böttger (1815-1870) GER [text unavailable]

Carl Georg Peter Grädener (1812-1883)

Hebräische Gesänge

Set in German, a translation of Anonymous/Unidentified Artist GER [text unavailable]

Julius Tausch (1827-1895)

Date added to the website: 2003-11-15.

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