Love-Sight - Vaughan Williams, Ralph

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⌛ Period → 20th Century ◈ Genre → Lieder ♬ Voicing → Solo medium ¶ Language → English

Parts 1

Instruments Piano

Pages 7

CPDL # 52755

Posted 2018-12-31

License CPDL License

¶Lyrics / Text

When do I see thee most, beloved one? When in the light the spirits of mine eyes Before thy face, their altar, solemnize The worship of that love thro’ thee made known? Or when, in the dusk hours (we two alone), Close-kissed and eloquent of still replies Thy twilight-hidden glimmering visage lies, And my soul only sees thy soul its own? O love, my love! if I no more should see Thyself, nor on the earth the shadow of thee, Nor image of thine eyes in any spring,— How then should sound upon Life’s darkening slope The ground-whirl of the perished leaves of Hope, The wind of Death’s imperishable wing?