Song

O moonlight deep and tender,
  A year and more agone,
Your mist of golden splendor
  Round my betrothal shone!

O elm-leaves dark and dewy,
  The very same ye seem,
The low wind trembles through ye,
  Ye murmur in my dream!

O river, dim with distance,
  Flow thus forever by,
A part of my existence
  Within your heart doth lie!

O stars, ye saw our meeting,
  Two beings and one soul,
Two hearts so madly beating
  To mingle and be whole!

O happy night, deliver
  Her kisses back to me,
Or keep them all, and give her
  A blisslul dream of me!

by James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) , "Song", from Poems, published 1844

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

by Mrs. George E. Aiken , "O moonlight deep and tender", published 1883. [voice, piano]
by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , "Betrothal", published 1865, note: composer has initials S. D. S.
by Florence Aylward (1862-) , "O moonlight deep and tender", published 1905 [voice, violin, piano, organ and harmonium], London : Chappell & Co. Ltd.
by Carl Reinhold Busch (1862-1943) , "O moonlight deep and tender", published 1902. [part song: mixed voices]
by Henry Leland Clarke (1907-1992) , "Moonlight deep and tender", published 1921. [high or medium voice, piano]
by Ferdinand Luis Dunkley (1869-1956) , "O moonlight deep and tender", published 1897. [high or low voice, piano]
by Elizabeth Philp (1827-1885) , "O moonlight deep and tender", published 1855 [voice, piano], from Six Songs
by Arthur Shepherd (1880-1958) , "Nocturne", op. 7 (Five Songs) no. 2, published 1909. [high voice, piano]
by Lucien H. Southard (1827-1881) , "O moonlight deep and tender", published 1855. [voice, piano]
by Samuel Prowse Warren (1841-1915) , "O moonlight deep and tender", published 1868 [voice, piano], from Two Songs

Date added to the website: 2005-05-07.

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