Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom

Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom,
On thee shall press no ponderous tomb;
   But on thy turf shall roses rear
   Their leaves, the earliest of the year;
And the wild cypress wave in tender gloom:

And oft by yon blue gushing stream
   Shall sorrow lean her drooping head,
And feed deep thought with many a dream,
   And lingering pause and lightly tread;
   Fond wretch! as if her step disturbed the dead!

Away! we know that tears are vain,
   That death nor heeds nor hears distress:
Will this unteach us to complain?
   Or make one mourner weep the less?
And thou -- who tell'st me to forget,
Thy looks are wan, thine eyes are wet.

by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) , "Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom", from Hebrew Melodies, no. 8

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

by George Vincent Duval , "Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom", published 1830? [high voice and piano]
by Horton Harris (1938-) , "Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom", 1961 [voice and piano], from Three Byron Songs, no. ?
by Colin McAlpin (1870-1942) , "Elegy", published 1905 [voice and piano], from Ten songs, no. ?
by James Nary , "Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom", published 1876 [voice and piano], from Lord Byron's Hebrew Melodies, no. ?
by Isaac Nathan (1790-1864) , "Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom", published 1815, from A Selection of Hebrew Melodies No. I, no. 8.
by Robert Owens , "Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom" [tenor and piano], from Stanzas for Music, no. 3.
by Bryceson Treharne (1879-1948) , "Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom", published 1926. [SSA chorus and piano]
by Wilkins , "Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom", published c1846. [SATTB chorus and piano]
by Grace Williams (1906-) , "O snatched away in beauty's bloom", 1933. [tenor and orchestra or piano]

by Karl Müller , "O du! im Schönheitsglanz gepflückt", op. 6 no. 6, published 1870. [medium voice, violin, viola, violoncello, and piano]

by (Johann Gottfried) Heinrich Bellermann (1832-1903) , "Du in der Schönheit strahlenden Schein", op. 10 (Sechs Lieder) no. ?, published 1860? [voice and piano]
by Johann Karl Gottfried Loewe (1796-1869) , "Totenklange", op. 4 (Hebräische Gesänge) no. 5 (1823).

Date added to the website: 2004-05-08.

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