Sweet apple (Stephens, set by H. Spier) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


At the end of the bough, at the top of the tree 
(As fragrant, as high, and as lovely as thou !), 
One sweet apple reddens which all men may see 
At the end of the bough. 
Swinging full to the view, though the gatherers now 
Pass, and evade, overlook busily : 
Overlook ! nay, but pluck it ! They cannot tell how. 
For it swings out of reach as a cloud, and as free 
As a star, or thy beauty, which seems too, I vow. 
Remote as the sweet rosy apple -- ah me ! 
At the end of the bough.

Authorship

James Stephens (1882-1950)

Here are Ladies

Based on

text

Sappho (fl. c610-c580 BCE)

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

Harry R. Spier (1888-1952)

Set in English, adapted by Helen Maude Francesca Bantock (von Schweizer) (1868-?) ENG

Sir Granville Ransome Bantock (1868-1946)

Sappho: Prelude and Nine Fragments

Date added to the website: 2009-01-26.

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