A lover's lament (Johnson, set by C. Deis) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


To kiss my Celia's fairer breast,
The snow forsakes its native skies,
But proving an unwelcome guest,
It grieves, dissolves in tears, and dies.
Its touch, like mine, but serves to wake
Thro' all her frame a deathlike chill, -
Its tears, like those I shed, to make
That icy bosom colder still.
I blame her not; from Celia's eyes
A common fate beholders proved.
Each swain, each fair one, weeps and dies,
With envy these, and those with love!

Authorship

William Martin Johnson

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

Carl Deis (1883-1960)

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