To Mary

O Mary dear, that you were here
With your brown eyes bright and clear.
And your sweet voice, like a bird
Singing love to its lone mate
In the ivy bower disconsolate; 
Voice the sweetest ever heard!
And your brow more...
Than the ... sky
Of this azure Italy.
Mary dear, come to me soon, 
I am not well whilst thou art far;
As sunset to the sphered moon,
As twilight to the western star,
Thou, beloved, art to me.

O Mary dear, that you were here; 
The Castle echo whispers 'Here!'

by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) , "To Mary", published 1824

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

by (Henry) Elliot Button (1861-?) , "O Mary dear", published c1910.
by Howard Glover (1819-1875) , "Mary dear", published 1863.
by Adolph B. Mann (1873?4-1941) , "To Mary", published 1923.
by Maude Valérie White (1855-1937) , "To Mary", published 1882.

by Sigizmund Mikhailovich Blumenfel'd (1852-1920) , "K Mari", op. 22 no. 3, published 1910, from Trois Mélodies, no. 3.

Date added to the website: 2005-01-26.

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