A pillar at Sebzevah

Ask not one least word of praise ! 
Words declare your eyes are bright ? 
What then meant that summer day's 
Silence spent in one long gaze ? 
Was my silence wrong or right ?

by Robert Browning (1812-1889) , "A pillar at Sebzevah", from Ferishtah's Fancies, no. 11, published 1884

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

by Sir Granville Ransome Bantock (1868-1946) , "A pillar at Sebzevah", 1903, published 1905 [tenor and orchestra], from Lyrics from "Ferishtah's Fancies", no. 11.
by Helen Archibald Clarke (fl. 1900) , "Song: Ask not one least word of praise", published 1891. [medium voice and piano]
by Gisella Augusta Zuckerman (1887-1981) , "A query", published 1921 [high voice and piano], from Two Poems by Robert Browning, no. ?

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