The kiss (Teasdale, set by H. Fryer) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Before you kissed me only winds of heaven
      Had kissed me, and the tenderness of rain --
Now you have come, how can I care for kisses
      Like theirs again?

I sought the sea, she sent her winds to meet me,
      They surged about me singing of the south --
I turned my head away to keep still holy
      Your kiss upon my mouth.

And swift sweet rains of shining April weather
      Found not my lips where living kisses are;
I bowed my head lest they put out my glory
      As rain puts out a star.

I am my love's and he is mine forever,
      Sealed with a seal and safe forevermore --
Think you that I could let a beggar enter
      Where a king stood before?

Authorship

Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)

Rivers to the Sea

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

Herbert Fryer

Five Songs

Date added to the website: 2008-06-04.

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