Claribel

Where Claribel low-lieth
The breezes pause and die,
Letting the rose-leaves fall;
But the solemn oak-tree sigheth,
Thick-leaved, ambrosial,
With an ancient melody
Of an inward agony,
Where Claribel low-lieth.

At eve the beetle boometh
Athwart the thicket lone;
At noon the wild bee hummeth
About the moss'd headstone;
At midnight the moon cometh,
And looketh down alone.
Her song the lintwhite swelleth,
The clear-voiced mavis dwelleth,
The callow throstle lispeth,
The slumbrous wave outwelleth,
The babbling runnel crispeth,
The hollow grot replieth
Where Claribel low-lieth.

by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) , "Claribel", from Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, 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 W. Borrow , "Claribel", published 1868. [four-part chorus]
by Greville Cooke , "Claribel", published 1928. [SATB a cappella]
by James Munro Coward (1824-1880) , "Where Claribel low-lieth", published <<1892. [four-part chorus]
by John Linton Gardner (1917-) , "Claribel, a Melody", 1974 [mixed chorus a cappella], from Tennyson Trip
by Edwin Gerschefski (1909-) , "Claribel", op. 3, copyright © 1967. [high voice and piano]
by Michael Head (1900-1976) , "Claribel", 1917?, published 1920. [voice and piano]
by Henry Albert Lambeth (1822-1895) , "Where Claribel low-lieth", published 1871. [voice and piano]
by Henry Hugo Pierson (1816-1873) , "Claribel", published 1861. [voice and piano], also set in German
by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) , "Claribel", 1896?, published 1906. [voice and piano]
by B. M. Waddington , "Where Claribel low-lieth", published <<1892. [voice and piano]

by Adolf Jensen (1837-1879) , "Claribel", published 1876 [voice and piano], from Sechs Gesänge

by Henry Hugo Pierson (1816-1873) , "Claribel", published 1861. [voice and piano], also set in English

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