Lost Love (Hardy, set by A. Downes) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


 I play my sweet old airs -
	The airs he knew
	When our love was true -
	But he does not balk
	His determined walk,
 And passes up the stairs.

 I sing my songs once more,
	And presently hear
	His footstep near
	As if it would stay;
	But he goes his way,
 And shuts a distant door.

 So I wait for another morn
	And another night
	In this soul-sick blight;
	And I wonder much
	As I sit, why such
 A woman as I was born!

Authorship

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

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Andrew Downes (1950-)

Lost Love

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