Canon (Anonymous, set by C. Ives) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Not only in my lady's eyes
Do I her beauty find,
All the lore that poets prize
Is garnered in her mind.

She is the soul of all I sing,
For, though to me belong
The pipe, the shell, the string,
She is the soul of all I sing
And she herself is the song.

There is no wisdom in my word,
No music in my lay,
Save what I've sweetly heard
My lady sing or say.

Authorship

Anonymous/Unidentified Artist

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

Charles Edward Ives (1874-1954)

Added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.

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