It was with doubt and trembling

It was with doubt and trembling 
I whispered in her ear.
Go, take her answer, bird-on-bough,
That all the world may hear --
Sweetheart, sigh no more!

Sing it, sing it, tawny throat,
Upon the wayside tree,
How fair she is, how true she is,
How dear she is to me --
Sweetheart, sigh no more!

Sing it, sing it, tawny throat, 
And through the summer long
The winds among the clover-tops
And brooks, for all their silvery stops,
Shall envy you the song --
Sweetheart, sigh no more!

by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) , from Wyndham Towers, published 1890

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

by Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944) , "Sweetheart, sigh no more", op. 14 (Four Songs) no. 3.
by Frank Herbert Brackett , "Sweetheart, sigh no more", published 1892.
by Frederic Field Bullard (1864-1904) , "Sweetheart, sigh no more"
by Mary Grant Carmichael (1851-1935) , "Sweetheart, sigh no more", published 1898.
by C. Henshaw Dana (1846-1883) , "It was with doubt and trembling", published 1877.
by Carlo Ferrero , "It was with doubt and trembling", published 1886.
by William L. Glover , "Sweetheart, sigh no more"
by Charles Fonteyn Manney (1872-1951) , "Sweetheart, sigh no more", published 1898.
by Charles I. Young , "Sweetheart, sigh no more", published 1890.

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