In Love, if Love be Love, if Love be...

In Love, if Love be Love, if Love be ours,
Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers:
Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all.

It is the little rift within the lute,
That by and by will make the music mute,
And ever widening slowly silence all.

The little rift within the lover's lute,
Or little pitted speck in garner'd fruit,
That rotting inward slowly moulders all.

It is not worth the keeping: let it go;
But shall it? answer, darling, answer, no.
And trust me not at all or all in all.

by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) , no title, from Enid and Nimuë: The True and the False, in Nimuë, published 1857

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

by Mrs. John Holman Andrews (1817-1878) , "Trust me all in all", published 1868. [voice and piano]
by Michael William Balfe (1808-1870) , "Trust me not at all", published 1859. [voice and piano]
by A. Barkworth , "Vivien's song", published 1874. [voice and piano]
by John G. Barnett (1802-1890) , "Vivien's song", published 1859. [voice and piano]
by John Blockley (1800-1882) , "Trust me not at all", <<1892. [voice and piano]
by Milburn Blume , "If love be ours", <<1892. [voice and piano]
by Helen Corin , "In love", published 1872. [voice and piano]
by William Richardson Dempster (1809-1871) , "In love, if love be love", published 1864. [voice and piano]
by John Michael Diack (1869-1946) , "In love, if love be love", <<1946. [voice and piano]
by Ellen Dickson (1819-1878) , "Vivien's song", published 1861 [voice and piano], under the pseudonym Dolores
by George Alexander MacFarren (1813-1887) , "In love, if love be love", <<1892. [voice and piano]
by Elises Smith , "Vivien", published 1864. [voice and piano]
by Albert Orlando Steed (1839-?) , "Vivien", published 1861 [voice and piano], from Four songs, no. ?
by Emily Tennyson, née Sellwood (1813-1896) , "In love, if love, be love", published 1892. [voice and piano]
by Emily Troup , "In love, if love be love", subtitle: "Vivien's song", published 1878. [voice and piano]
by Mrs. W. D. Wilson , "The rift within the lute", published 1874. [voice and piano]

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