Dreams
Language:
English
Be gentle, O hands of a child;
Be true: like a shadowy sea
In the starry darkness of night
Are your eyes to me.
But words are shallow, and soon
Dreams fade that the heart once knew;
And youth fades out in the mind,
In the dark eyes too.
What can a tired heart say,
Which the wise of the world have made dumb?
Save to the lonely dreams of a child,
"Return again, come!"
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 Walter Joseph Buczynski (1933-)
, "Dreams", 1955 [alto and piano], from Four Poems of Walter de la Mare, no. ?
by Victor Edward Galway
, "Be gentle, O hands of a child", published 1948. [SATB a cappella]
by Gaynor D. Garrett
, "Dreams", 1954 [soprano or tenor and piano], from Three Poems of Walter de la Mare, no. ?
Date added to the website: 2008-01-13.
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