Farewell! if ever fondest prayer

Farewell! if ever fondest prayer
  For other's weal availed on high,
Mine will not all be lost in air,
  But waft thy name beyond the sky.
'Twere vain to speak, to weep, to sigh:
  Oh! more than tears of blood can tell,
When wrung from guilt's expiring eye,
  Are in that word - Farewell! - Farewell!

These lips are mute, these eyes are dry;
  But in my breast and in my brain,
Awake the pangs that pass not by,
  The thought that ne'er shall sleep again.
My soul nor deigns nor dares complain,
  Though grief and passion there rebel:
I only know we loved in vain -
  I only feel - Farewell! - Farewell!

by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) , "Farewell", from The Corsair, published 1814

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

by Annie E. Armstrong , "Farewell if ever fondest prayer", published 1873. [high voice and piano]
by Frederick Cook Atkinson (1841-1897) , "Farewell", published 1876 [voice and piano], from Six songs, no. ?
by Adolphe G. Beck , "Farewell, farewell", published 1848. [voice and piano]
by Amelia Becker and by Theophilus H. Reed , "Lord Byron's `Farewell'", published 1871 [voice and piano], the melody is by Reed and the music by Becker
by Charles H. Behr , "Farewell if ever fondest prayer", published 1890. [high voice and piano]
by T. Alfred Bell , "Farewell if ever fondest prayer", published 1895. [high voice and piano]
by Alfred B. Burrington , "Farewell if ever fondest prayer", published 1863. [medium voice and piano]
by Frederick William Clarke (1852-1883) , "Farewell! if ever fondest prayer", published 1880 [high voice and piano], from Ten songs, no. ?
by John Collett , "Farewell! if ever fondest prayer", published <<1887.
by Frank C. D'Alquen (fl. 1890) , "Farewell if ever fondest prayer", published 1876. [medium voice and piano]
by Ina Dawes , "Farewell", published 1882. [voice and piano]
by Charles George Cotsford Dick (1846-1911) , "Farewell if ever fondest prayer", published 1881. [high voice and piano]
by John Lodge Ellerton (1801-1873) , no title, 1822. [voice and piano]
by Adolph Martin Foerster (1854-1927) , "Farewell", op. 53 no. 10, published 1903. [voice and piano]
by George Gaff , "Farewell", published 1869? [voice and piano]
by Arthur Edmund Grimshaw (1864-?) , "Farewell", published 1883. [voice and piano]
by Charles Grobe (1817-1880) , "Farewell if ever fondest prayer", published 1851. [voice and piano duet]
by William H. A. Hall , "Farewell", published <<1929. [medium voice and piano]
by Richard Frederick Harvey , "Farewell if ever", published 1884. [voice and piano]
by Alfred Hasborough , "Farewell", published <<1940. [voice and piano]
by Mary Hindley , "Farewell if ever fondest prayer", published 1895. [alto or baritone and piano]
by J. Dodsley Humphreys , "Farewell if ever fondest prayer", published <<1840. [male voice and piano]
by Joseph Harper Kearton (1848-?) , "Farewell", published 1874. [soprano or tenor and piano]
by George Linley (1798-1865) , "Farewell if ever fondest prayer", published 1854 [voice and piano], from An Evening with Byron, no. ?
by George Alexander MacFarren (1813-1887) , "Farewell if ever fondest prayer", published 1868. [voice and piano]
by George William Martin (1828-1881) , "Farewell", published 1881. [voice and piano]
by Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (1805-1847) , "Farewell", 1837, published 2001.
by Gaetano Muratori , "Farewell if ever fondest prayer", published 1873. [voice and piano]
by Henry Myers , "Farewell", published 1917. [voice and piano]
by Sigismund von Neukomm (1778-1858) , "Farewell", published 1835? [alto and piano]
by Herbert Stanley Oakeley (1830-1903) , "Farewell! If ever fondest prayer", published 1850? [tenor or soprano and piano]
by Samuel Harold Oakley , "Farewell! If ever fondest prayer", published 1913. [high voice and piano]
by John Pointer (-1934) , "Farewell", published 1910. [voice and piano]
by Charles Salaman (1814-1901) , "Farewell! If ever fondest prayer", published 1843. [voice and piano]
by H. A. Salwey , "Farewell if ever fondest prayer", published 1878. [medium voice and piano]
by August Schulz , "Lord Byron's 'Farewell if ever fondest prayer'", published 1835? [voice and piano]
by William Shelmerdine (-1893) , "Farewell", published 1859. [high voice and piano]
by John Andrew Stevenson (1761-1833) , "A farewell", published 1816. [voice and piano]
by Alfred Stourton , "Farewell", published 1862. [voice and piano]
by Alfred James Sutton (1827-?) , "Farewell if ever fondest prayer", op. 1 (Six songs) no. ?, published 1858. [voice and piano]
by Giulio Tartaglione , "Byron's Farewell", published 1876. [voice and piano]
by Nino Tetamo , "Farewell! If ever Fondest Heart", published 1918 [voice and piano], note: textual changes not indicated
by Mrs. Thistlethwayte , "Farewell! If ever fondest prayer", published c1840. [vocal duet with piano]
by Augustus Voigt , "Farewell! if ever fondest prayer", c1825, published <<1940. [voice and piano]
by Sidney Waller , "Farewell if ever fondest prayer", published c1825. [voice and piano]
by Samuel Prowse Warren (1841-1915) , "Farewell if ever", 1865. [voice and organ]
by Charles F. Webb , "Farewell", published 1874. [voice and piano]
by C. G. Weber , "Farewell if ever fondest prayer", published 1850 [voice and piano], arrangement of a German air
by Samuel Wesley (1766-1837) , "Farewell if ever fondest prayer", <<1837.
by Maude Valérie White (1855-1937) , "Farewell if ever fondest prayer", published 1874. [voice and piano]
by J. A. E. Winkler , "Farewell! if ever fondest prayer", published 1851. [voice and piano]
by S. Constantino Yon , "Farewell", published 1907. [low voice and piano]
by Emmy A. Zogbaum , "Farewell if ever fondest prayer", published 1887. [voice and piano]

by Johann Karl Gottfried Loewe (1796-1869) , "Lebewohl", 1817-8?, published 1899. [voice and piano]

by Wenzel Gährich , "Lebewohl von Byron", <<1864. [mezzo-soprano and piano]

by Malvina Garrigues (1825-1904) , "Lebwohl" [voice and piano], from Sechs Lieder, no. ?

by Adalbert von Goldschmidt (1848-1906) , "Leb' wohl, wenn je ein heisses Flehen", published 1893 [tenor and piano], from Neue Lieder und Gesänge, no. 13.

by Alexander Winterberger (1834-1914) , "Leb' wohl!", op. 10 (20 Gesänge) no. 20, published 1862. [voice and piano]

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