If Love were not (Coates, set by C. Johns) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


If Love were not, the wilding rose
Would in its leafy heart enclose
No chalice of perfume;
By mossy bank, in glen or grot,
No bird would build, if Love were not,
No flow'r complacent bloom;
The sunset clouds would lose their dyes,
The light would fade from beauty's eyes;
The stars their fires consume.
And something miss'd from hall and cot
Would leave the world, if Love were not,
A wilderness of gloom.

Authorship

Florence Earle Coates (1850-1927)

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

Clayton Johns (1857-1932)

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