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


Come back to me my swallow
  And leave me not forlorn,
Into the woods I follow
  The footsteps of the morn.

I thread the rustling hollow
  Before the day is born,
Come back to me my swallow
  And leave me not forlorn!

The light was dark without thee,
  My bird of April days,
I almost came to doubt thee
  When thou hadst gone thy ways -- 

The sunshine round about thee -- 
  Into the land of rays.
The light was dark without thee,
  My bird of April days.

Authorship

Mary Coleridge (1861-1907)

Poems

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

Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)

Eight partsongs

Date added to the website: 2009-02-04.

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