The moon has set (Bantock, set by G. Bantock) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


The moon has set, and the Pleiades;
It is midnight; time is going by,
And I sleep alone.
I yearn and seek -
I know not what to do -
And I flutter like a child after her mother,
For Love masters my limbs, and shakes me,
Fatal creature, bitter-sweet -
Yea, Eros shakes my soul,
A wind on the mountain falling on the oaks.

Alas! I shall be ever maiden;
Neither honey nor bee for me.

Authorship

Helen Maude Francesca Bantock (von Schweizer) (1868-?)

Based on

text

Henry Thornton Wharton (1846-1895)

ITA

GER

Based on

text

Sappho (fl. c610-c580 BCE)

ITA

GER

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

Sir Granville Ransome Bantock (1868-1946)

Sappho: Prelude and Nine Fragments

Set in Italian, a translation of Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968) ITA GER

Goffredo Petrassi (1904-2003)

Due liriche di Saffo

Set in German, a translation of Walter Jens (1923-) ITA GER

Aribert Reimann (1936-)

Drei Gedichte der Sappho

Set in German, a translation of Rudolf Bach ITA GER [text unavailable]

Hermann Reutter (1900-1985)

Fünf antike Oden nach Gedichten von Sappho

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