So we'll go no more a‑roving

So we'll go no more a-roving
So late into the night,
Though the heart be [still]1 as loving,
And the moon be still as bright.

For the sword outwears the sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart [must pause to breathe]2,
And Love itself have rest.

Though the night was made for loving,
And the day returns too soon,
Yet we'll go no more a-roving
By the light of the moon.

by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) , "So we'll go no more a-roving", 1817, from Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: with Notices of His Life, Volume II, published 1830

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

by Thomas Henry Wait Armstrong (1898-?) , "So, we'll go no more a roving", published 1933. [TTBB chorus a cappella]
by Charles Bennett , "Serenade", published 1922. [voice and piano]
by Carlos Chávez (1899-1978) , "So, we'll go no more a roving", published 1946 [SSAATTBB chorus a cappella], from Three Nocturnes, no. ?
by George Cory (1920?-) , "So, we'll go no more a roving", published 1970 [medium voice and piano], from Four Songs of Night, no. ?
by Mervyn Dale , "So, we'll go no more a roving", published 1971. [SA chorus or unison voices and piano]
by Robert Mills Delaney (1903-1956) , "So, we'll go no more a roving", published 1931. [SATB chorus a cappella]
by Robert Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943) , "So, we'll go no more a roving", published 1940. [women's chorus a cappella]
by Peter Dickinson (1934-) , "Reminiscences", 1978, first performed 1979. [low voice, alto saxophone, and piano]
by Bernard van Dieren (1887-1936) , "So we'll go no more a roving", note: set as Helen Bevan Dean
by William Edmondstoune Duncan (1866-1920) , "No more a-roving", published 1918. [medium voice and piano]
by Richard Dyer-Bennet , "So, we'll go no more a roving", <<1954. [voice and guitar]
by John Lodge Ellerton (1801-1873) , "So, we'll go no more a roving", published 1833. [voice and piano]
by Herbert Ferrers , "So, we'll go no more a roving", published 1929. [voice and piano]
by Michael Fiveisky , "We'll go no more a-roving", published 1948. [voice and piano]
by Cecil Forsyth (1870-1941) , "So, we'll go no more a roving", published 1927. [TTBB chorus a cappella]
by Patrick Arthur Sheldon Hadley (1899-1973) , "So, we'll go no more a roving", published 1929. [voice and piano]
by C. H. Keefer , "Love's rest", published 1907. [voice and piano]
by George Kiallmark (1781-1835) , "We'll go no more a-roving", published 1830. [voice and piano]
by S. E. Lovatt , "So, we'll go no more a roving", published 1934. [TTBarB chorus a cappella]
by Leighton Lucas (1903-1982) , "No more", published 1968. [SSA chorus a cappella]
by Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994) , "So, we'll go no more a roving", published 1976 [voice and harp], from Three Songs for Voice and Harp, no. ?
by Derrick Mason , "So, we'll go no more a roving", published 1967 [voices, glockenspiel, cymbals, xylophone, triangle, and piano], from Three Episodes, no. ?
by Robert Owens , "So we'll go no more a-roving" [tenor and piano], from Stanzas for Music, no. 4.
by Alexander Paucker (1905-1972) , "We'll go no more a-roving", <<1972 [voice and violoncello ad libitum], under the pseudonym Francis Chagrin
by George Norman Peterkin (1886-?) , "So, we'll go no more a roving", published 1929. [low voice and piano]
by Kurt George Roger (1895-1966) , "So, we'll go no more a roving", 1946, first performed 1950 [baritone and piano], from Three English Poems, no. ?
by Rudolph Edward Schirmer (1919-) , "So, we'll go no more a roving", published 1949. [high voice and piano]
by Lewys Thomas , "So, we'll go no more a roving", published 1934. [TTBB chorus and piano]
by Millard S. Thomson (1918-) , "So, we'll go no more a roving", 1944. [medium voice and piano]
by Bryceson Treharne (1879-1948) , "So, we'll go no more a roving", published 1919 [high voice and piano], from Six songs, no. ?
by Samuel W. Underwood , "So, we'll go no more a roving", published 1905 [voice and piano], from Two Short Songs, no. ?
by George Theophilus Walker (1922-) , "So, we'll go no more a roving", published 1971. [medium voice and piano]
by Maude Valérie White (1855-1937) , "So, we'll go no more a roving", published 1888. [voice and piano]
by Pedro de Zulueta , "So, we'll go no more a roving", published 1957. [duet for soprano and tenor with piano]

by T. Wallace Southam , "We'll go no more a-roving", published 1966, stanza 1 of [voice and piano], from Poetry Set in Jazz, no. ? [see full setting text]

by Emil R. H. Friebel , "Wir werden nicht mehr rudern geh'n", op. 23, first performed 1801.

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