Dedication

Take, dear, my little sheaf of songs,
For, old or new,
All that is good in them belongs
Only to you;

And, singing as when all was young,
They will recall
Those others, lived but left unsung --
The bent of all.

by William Ernest Henley (1849-1903) , "Dedication - to my wife", from A Book of Verses, published 1888

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

by Hugo Riesenfeld (1879-1939) , "Dedication", <<1939.
by Landon Ronald (1873-1938) , "Dedication", published 1908 [voice and piano], from Echoes, no. ?

Date added to the website: 2008-12-10.

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