Music, Love and Wine (Smyth, set by L. Beethoven) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


 O let me Music hear
 Night and Day!
 Let the voice and let the Lyre
 Dissolve my heart, my spirit's fire;
 Music and I ask no more,
 Night or Day!

 Hence with colder world,
 Hence, Adieu!
 Give me. Give me but the while,
 The brighter heav'n of Ellen's smile,
 Love and then I ask no more,
 Oh, would you?

 Hence with this world of care
 I say too;
 Give me but the blissful dream,
 That mingles in the goblet's gleam,
 Wine and then I ask no more,
 What say you?

 Music may gladden Wine,
 What say you?
 Tendrils of the laughing Vine
 Around the Myrtle well may twine,
 Both may grace the Lyre divine,
 What say you?

 What if we all agree,
 What say you?
 I will list the Lyre with thee,
 And he shall dream of Love like me,
 Brighter than the wine shall be,
 What say you?

Refrain
 Love, Music, wine agree,
 True, true, true!
 Round then round the glass, the glee,
 And Ellen in our toast shall be!
 Music, wine and Love agree,
 True, true, true!

Input by Ferdinando Albeggiani

Authorship

William Smyth (1765-1849)

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

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

25 schottische Lieder mit Begleitung von Pianoforte, Violine und Violoncello

Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

GER

German

Text added to the website: 2004-08-18.

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