Tears

High o'er the hill the moon barque steers.
   The lantern lights depart.
Dead springs are stirring in my heart;
      And there are tears. . . .
But that which makes my grief more deep
Is that you know not when I weep.

by Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng (1872-1945) , "Tears", from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China, published 1909

a text in Chinese by Wang-Seng-Yu (6^th century) [text unavailable] GER

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

by Sir Granville Ransome Bantock (1868-1946) , "And there are tears", published 1934 [voice and piano], from Songs from the Chinese Poets: Set V, no. 6.
by Hugh Dixon (1927-) , "Tears", 2004 [horn, soprano, and tenor], from To the moon and tears, no. 2.
by Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884-1920) , "Tears", op. 10 no. 4 (1916), published 1917 [voice and piano], from Five Poems of Ancient China and Japan / Five Poems of the Ancient Far East, no. 4.
by Emerson Whithorne (1884-1958) , "Tears", op. 34 no. 1, published 1921 [voice and piano], from Two Chinese Nocturnes, no. 1.

by Rudolf Amereder , "Am dunkelblauen Himmel", op. 1 no. 2.
by Clemens Erwein Heinrich Karl Bonaventura Freiherr von und zu Franckenstein (1875-1942) , "Die Einsame", op. 44 (Fünf Gesänge aus der Chinesischen Flöte) no. 2, published 1921?
by Max Kuhn (1896-1994) , "Die Einsame", from Gedichte aus der Chinesischen Flöte von Hans Bethge, no. ?
by Leo Michielsen (1872-1944) , "Die Einsame", from Sechs Gesänge chinesischer Lyrik, no. 3.
by Anatol Provaznik (1887-1950) , "Die Einsame", op. 132 no. 4, published 1925, from Chinesische Flöte Lieder, no. 4.
by Dirk Schäfer , "Die Einsame", op. 16 no. 1.
by Anton von Webern (1883-1945) , "Die Einsame", op. 13 (Vier Lieder für Sopran und Kammerorchester) no. 2 (1914).

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