Remembrance | 'Tis done! -- I saw it in my dreams

by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)

Remembrance

Language: English

Our translations: CHI FRE GER

'Tis done! -- I saw [it]¹ in my dreams;
No more with Hope the future beams; 
  My days of happiness are few: 
Chill'd by misfortune's wintry blast, 
My dawn of life is overcast; 
  Love Hope, and Joy, alike adieu! 
  Would I could add Remembrance too!

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• E. Moór

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Confirmed with The Poetical Works of Lord Byron, London: Oxford University Press Humphrey Milford, 1933, page 38.

¹ Moór: "you"

Text Authorship:

by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824), "Remembrance", written 1806, appears in Hours of Idleness, first published 1832 [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 Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "Remembrance", op. 323 (Sieben Lieder nach George Lord Byron) no. 1 (2021) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Emanuel Moór (1863 - 1931), "Remembrance", op. 13 (Sechzehn Lieder) no. 15, published 1890 [ voice and piano ], Mainz, Schott [sung text checked 1 time]
by Germaine Tailleferre (1892 - 1983), "Remembrance" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Ernst Ortlepp (1800 - 1864) , "Erinnerung" ; composed by Josephine Lang.
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