After love (Symons, set by N. Dello Joio, C. Lemont, L. Ronald) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


To part now and parting now,
Never to meet again;
To have done for ever; I and thou,
With joy, and so with pain.

It is too hard, too hard to meet
If we trust love no more;
Those other meetings were too sweet
That went before.

And I would have, now love is over,
An end to all, and end:
I cannot, having been your lover,
Stoop to become your friends!

Authorship

Arthur Symons (1865-1945)

Silhouettes

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

Norman Dello Joio (1913-)

Three Songs of Adieu

Cedric Wilmot Lemont (1879-1954)

Landon Ronald (1873-1938)

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

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