Bedouin song

From the Desert I come to thee
On a stallion shod with fire;
And the winds are left behind
In the speed of my desire.
Under thy window I stand,
And the midnight hears my cry:
I love thee, I love but thee,
With a love that shall not die
  Till the sun grows cold,
  And the stars are old,
  And the leaves of the Judgment Book Unfold!
 
Look from thy window and see
My passion and my pain;
I lie on the sands below,
And I faint in thy disdain.
Let the night-winds touch thy brow
With the heat of my burning sigh,
And melt thee to hear the vow
Of a love that shall not die
  Till the sun grows cold,
  And the stars are old,
  And the leaves of the Judgment Book Unfold!
 
My steps are nightly driven,
By the fever in my breast,
To hear from thy lattice breathed
The word that shall give me rest.
Open the door of thy heart,
And open thy chamber door,
And my kisses shall teach thy lips
The love that shall fade no more
  Till the sun grows cold,
  And the stars are old,
  And the leaves of the Judgment Book Unfold!

by Bayard Taylor (1825-1878) , "Bedouin song", from Poems of the Orient, published 1854

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

by Charles R. Adams (1834-1900) , "Bedouin song", published 1882. [bass and piano]
by Avonia Bonney , "From the desert I come to thee", published 1885. [voice and piano]
by Dudley Buck (1839-1909) , "Bedouin love song", op. 87 no. 2, published 1872. [voice and piano]
by George Whitefield Chadwick (1854-1931) , "Bedouin love song", 1890, published 1890. [voice and piano]
by Charles Whitney Coombs (1859-1940) , "Bedouin love song", op. 2 (Two songs) no. ?, published 1883. [voice and piano]
by M. S. Downs , "From the desert I come", published 1868 [voice and piano], also set in Italian
by Arthur Foote (1853-1937) , "Bedouin song", published 1892 [four-part men's chorus], also set in German (1903) for four-part mixed chorus
by A. Haller Gross , "From the desert I come to thee", published 1888. [voice and piano]
by Charles Beach Hawley (1858-1915) , "Bedouin love song", published 1897. [low voice and piano]
by George W. Marston (1840-1901) , "Bedouin love song", published 1891. [tenor or baritone and piano]
by Constance Morse , "Bedouin love song", published 1905. [voice and piano]
by William Harold Neidlinger (1863-1924) , "From the desert I come", published 1893. [voice and piano]
by Alfred Humphries (or Humphreys) Pease (1838-1882) , "Bedouin song", published 1872. [voice and piano]
by William H. Pilcher , "Bedouin love song", op. 34 no. 1, published 1893. [voice and piano]
by Ciro Pinsuti (1829-1888) , "Bedouin love song", published 1904. [voice and piano]
by Daniel Protheroe (1866-1934) , "From the desert", op. 55 no. 4, published 1903. [TTBB chorus a cappella]
by Constantin Ivanovich Sternberg (1852-1924) , "Song of the Arab", op. 81, published 1900. [voice and piano]

Date added to the website: 2008-07-06.

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