Two camels (Browning, set by G. Bantock) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Once I saw a chemist take a pinch of powder 
Simple dust it seemed and half-unstop a phial: 
Out dropped harmless dew. " Mixed nothings make" quoth he 
"Something!" So they did: a thunderclap, but louder 
Lightning-flash, but fiercer put spectators' nerves to trial: 
Sure enough, we learned what was, imagined what might be. 

Had I no experience how a lip's mere tremble, 
Look's half hesitation, cheek's just change of color, 
These effect a heartquake, how should I conceive 
What a heaven there may be ? Let it but resemble 
Earth myself have known ! No bliss that' s finer, fuller, 
Only bliss that lasts, they say, and fain would I believe.

Authorship

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

Ferishtah's Fancies

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

Sir Granville Ransome Bantock (1868-1946)

Lyrics from "Ferishtah's Fancies"

Date added to the website: 2009-02-26.

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