Monody (Melville, set by D. Diamond, W. Flanagan) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


To have known him, to have loved him
After loneness long;
And then to be estranged in life,
And neither in the wrong;
And now for death to set his seal--
Ease me, a little ease, my song!

By wintry hills his hermit-mound
The sheeted snow-drifts drape,
And houseless there the snow-bird flits
Beneath the fir-trees' crape:
Glazed now with ice the cloistral vine
That hid the shyest grape.

Authorship

Herman Melville (1819-1891)

Timoleon

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

David Leo Diamond (1915-2005)

5 Songs by David Diamond

William Flanagan (1923-1969)

Time's Long Ago: A Cycle of Songs to Poems of Herman Melville

Date added to the website: 2008-07-19.

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