by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861)
Oh, wilt thou have my hand, Dear, to lie...
Language: English
Oh, wilt thou have my hand, Dear, to lie along in thine? As a little stone in a running stream, it seems to lie and pine. Now drop the poor pale hand, Dear, unfit to plight with thine. Oh, wilt thou have my cheek, Dear, drawn closer to thine own? My cheek is white, my check is worn, by many a tear run down. Now leave a little space, Dear, lest it should wet thine own. Oh, must thou have my soul, Dear, commingled with thy soul? - Red grows the cheek, and warm the hand; the part is in the whole; Nor hands nor cheeks keep separate, when soul is joined to soul.
H. Stothart sets stanza 1
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Text Authorship:
- by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861), "Inclusions", appears in Poems, first published 1850 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Johan Backer-Lunde (1874 - 1958), "Inclusions" [ voice and orchestra ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867 - 1944), "When soul is joined to soul", op. 62, published 1905 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Carl Reinhold Busch (1862 - 1943), "Inclusions", published 1899 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Dot Echols , "Inclusions", 1925 [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Mary Ann) Virginia Gabriel (1825 - 1877), "Oh, wilt thou have my hand, Dear" [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Karl Miller (b. 1871), "Inclusions", published 1903 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Elizabeth Philp (1827 - 1885), "Inclusion" [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by T. C. L. Pritchard , "O wilt thou have my hand", published c1925 [ voice and piano ], from Six songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Herbert Stothart (1885 - 1949), "Wilt thou have my hand", published 1934, stanza 1 [ voice and spinet ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Bryceson Treharne (1879 - 1948), "Renunciation", published 1917 [ voice and piano ], from Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Kate Vannah (1855 - 1933), "Questionings", published 1894 [ soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joseph Williams (1847 - 1923), as Florian Pascal, "Inclusions", published 1905 [ voice and piano ], from Eight Songs (5th set) [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2007-12-12
Line count: 9
Word count: 113