An African Love Song (Dunbar, set by H. Bull, S. Coleridge-Taylor, E. Nevin) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


  My heart to thy heart,
    My hand to thine;
  My lip to thy lips,
    Kisses are wine
Brewed for the lover in sunshine and shade;
Let me drink deep, then, my African maid.

  Lily to lily,
    Rose unto rose;
  My love to thy love
    Tenderly grows.
Rend not the oak and the ivy in twain,
Nor the swart maid from her swarthier swain.

Authorship

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)

Majors and Minors

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

Harry G. Bull

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912)

African Romances

Ethelbert Nevin (1862-1901)

Date added to the website: 2008-07-27.

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