My star

All, that I know
Of a certain star
Is, it can throw
(Like the angled spar)
Now a dart of red,
Now a dart of blue
Till my friends have said
They would fain see, too,
My star that dartles the red and the blue!
Then it stops like a bird; like a flower, hangs furled:
They must solace themselves with the Saturn above it.
What matter to me if their star is a world?
Mine has opened its soul to me; therefore I love it.

by Robert Browning (1812-1889) , "My star", from Men and Women, published 1855

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

by Evelyn H. Atkins , "My star" [high voice and violin]
by Sir Granville Ransome Bantock (1868-1946) , "My star", 1920, published 1920 [voice and piano], from Dramatic Lyrics Set I, no. 3.
by Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944) , "My star", <<1918.
by Benjamin Burrows (1891-1966) , "My star", 1927. [voice and piano]
by Helen Archibald Clarke (fl. 1900) , "My star", published 1889. [high voice and piano]
by Lulu Jones Downing , "My star", published 1910 [voice and piano], from Three songs, no. ?
by Eleanor Everest Freer (1864-1942) , "My star", published 1929. [baritone and piano]
by Eleanor Everest Freer (1864-1942) , "My star", op. 4 no. 2, published 1905 [voice and piano], from A Book of Songs, no. 2.
by Richard Hall , "My star", 1950, first performed 1950. [mezzo-soprano and piano]
by Mildred J. Hill , "My star", published 1898. [medium voice and piano]
by Sidney Homer (1864-1953) , "My star", op. 12 (Three Poems of Browning) no. 1, published 1902. [voice and piano]
by A. F. Millar , "My star", published 1915. [low voice and piano]
by William Harold Neidlinger (1863-1924) , "My star", published 1895 [soprano or tenor and piano], from Songs and Ballads
by Emiliano Renaud , "My star", published 1914 [high voice and piano], from Four songs by Robert Browning, no. ?
by Clara Kathleen Rogers (1844-1931) , "My star", published 1900 [high voice and piano], from Browning songs (Second Series), no. ?
by Leo Smith (1881-1952) , "My star", published 1912 [high voice and piano], from Five songs, no. ?
by Sir Arthur Somervell (1863-1937) , "My star", published 1923 [voice and piano], from A Broken Arc, no. ?
by Latham True (1874-1945) , "My star", published 1932 [medium voice and piano], from Browning songs, no. ?
by Gerard Victory (1921-) , "My star", 1953 [tenor, SATB chorus, and orchestra], from Carmen Stellarum, no. ?
by Mrs. J. Eddie Weems , "My star" [voice and piano], from The Browning Cycle of Love Lyrics, no. ?
by Thomas Carl Whitmer (1873-1959) , "My star", op. 3 (Three songs) no. ?, copyright © 1903. [mezzo-soprano and piano]
by John W. Worth , "My star" [high voice and piano], from Twelve Songs by Browning, no. ?

Date added to the website: 2007-06-14.

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