Capri
Language:
English
When beauty grows too great to bear
How shall I ease me of its ache,
For beauty more than bitterness
Makes the heart break.
Now while I watch the dreaming sea
With isles like flowers against her breast,
Only one voice in all the world
Could give me rest.
Authorship
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text),
listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
 by Alice Barnett (1886-1975)
, "Song at Capri", published 1923 [voice, piano], from Three Songs of Musing
by John Woods Duke (1899-1984)
, "Capri", published 1949. [medium or high voice, piano]
by Mabel Wood Hill (1870-1954)
, "A Song at Capri", published 1919 [voice, piano], from Four Poems by Sara Teasdale
by Wintter Watts (1884-1962)
, "Capri", published 1919 [high voice, piano], from Vignettes Overseas, no. 3.
Date added to the website: 2004-12-29.
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