Serenade (Newmarch, set by E. Elgar) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


 Dreams all too brief,
 Dreams without grief,
 Once they are broken, come not again.

 Across the sky the dark clouds sweep,
 And all is dark and drear above:
 The bare trees toss their arms and weep,
 Rest on, and do not wake, dear Love.

 Since glad dreams haunt your slumbers deep,
 Why should you scatter them in vain?

 Happy is he, when Autumn falls,
 Who feels the dream-kiss of the Spring;
 And happy he in prison walls
 Who dreams of freedom's rescuing;

 But woe to him who vainly calls
 Through sleepless nights for ease from pain?

Authorship

Rosa Harriet Jeaffreson Newmarch (1857-1940)

Based on

text

Nikolai Maksimovich Minsky (1855-1937)

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

Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

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

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