To the moon (Shelley, set by G. Antheil) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Bright wanderer, fair coquette of Heaven,
To whom alone it has been given
To change and be adored for ever,
Envy not this dim world, for never
But once within its shadow grew
One fair as --

Authorship

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

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

George Antheil (1900-1959)

Eight Fragments from Shelley

Set in Russian, a translation of Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [text unavailable]

Sigizmund Mikhailovich Blumenfel'd (1852-1920)

Trois Mélodies

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

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