Rachel (Mare, set by L. Berkeley, B. Burrows, P. McIntyre, D. Smith) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Rachel sings sweet -- 
Oh yes, at night,
Her pale face bent
In the candle-light,
Her slim hands touch
The answering keys,
And she sings of hope
And of memories:
Sings to the little
Boy that stands
Watching those slim,
Light, heedful hands.
He looks in her face;
Her dark eyes seem
Dark with a beautiful
Distant dream;
And still she plays,
Sings tenderly
To him of hope,
And of memory.

Authorship

Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)

The Listeners and Other Poems

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

Sir Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989)

Songs of the Half-Light

Benjamin Burrows (1891-1966)

Paul McIntyre

Four Poems of Walter de la Mare

David Stanley Smith (1877-1949)

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