Marriage morning (Tennyson, set by A. Sullivan, S. Thomson, R. Walthew) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Light, so low upon earth, -
You send a flash to the sun.
Here is the golden close of love,
All my wooing is done. -
O the woods and the meadows,
Woods where we hid from the wet,
Stiles where we stayed to be kind,
Meadows in which we met!

Light, so low in the vale,
You flash and lighten afar;
For this is the golden morning of love,
And you are his morning star.
Flash! I am coming, I come,
By meadow and stile and wood:
O lighten into my eyes and heart,
Into my heart and my blood!

Heart are you great enough
For a love that never tires?
O heart are you great enough for love?
I have heard of thorns and briers.

Over the thorns and briers,
Over the meadows and stiles,
Over the world to the end of it
Flash for a million miles!

Over the thorns and briers,
Over the meadows and stiles,
Over the world to the end of it
Flash for a million miles!

Authorship

Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)

The Windows, or The Loves of the Wrens

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

Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900)

The Window, or The Songs of the Wrens

Sidney Thomson

The Window or the Song of the Wrens

Richard Henry Walthew (1872-1951)

Date added to the website: 2009-03-22.

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