Tears, idle tears, Op. 68:4 - Stanford, Charles Villiers

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⌛ Period → Late Romantic ◈ Genre → Partsongs

♯ Key C major

⁄ Time Signature 6/4

♬ Voicing → SATB

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate

↕ Range B-0 – F#6

¶ Language → English

Measures 134

Texture Homophonic

Parts 6

Instruments Piano

Pages 11

CPDL # 45552

Editor James Gibb

Posted 2017-07-22

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

Soprano

E-4 – A5

Alto

B-3 – D5

Tenor

E-3 – G4

Bass

A-2 – D4

Piano

B-0 – A-4

¶Lyrics / Text

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather in the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more. Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds To dying ears, when unto dying eyes The casement slowly grows a glimmering square; So sad, so strange, the days that are no more. Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more!