by Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888)
Strew on her roses, roses
Language: English
Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too! Her mirth the world required; She bathed it in smiles of glee. But her heart was tired, tired, And now they let her be. Her life was turning, turning, In mazes of heat and sound. But for peace her soul was yearning, And now peace laps her round. Her cabined ample spirit, It fluttered and failed for breath. Tonight it doth inherit The vasty hall of death.
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Text Authorship:
- by Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), "Requiescat", appears in Poems, first published 1853 [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 Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "Peace", note: may be wrong text for this title [sung text not yet checked]
- by B. Bernoulli , "Strew on her roses, roses", published 1892 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by James Brown , "Requiescat", first performed 1896 [ voice, orchestra ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hastings Crossley (1846 - ?), "Strew on her roses", published c1882 [ soprano or tenor, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by F. E. Durrant , "Requiescat", published 1948 [ SSATTB chorus a cappella ], madrigal [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Esmond , "Requiescat", published 1883? [ voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Helen Hopekirk (1856 - 1945), "Requiescat", published 1886 [ voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Havelock Nelson (1917 - 1996), "Autumn (Requiescat)", 1957, first performed 1958 [ tenor solo and SATB chorus a cappella ], from The Course of the Year [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Laurence Seymour (b. 1893), "Requiescat", published 1935 [ voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (1852 - 1924), "Requiescat", op. 14 (Six Songs) no. 1, published 1882 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Stoker (b. 1938), "Requiescat", published 1973 [ SS chorus or TT chorus or 2-part children's chorus, and piano or harpsichord ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Philip George Wilkinson (b. 1929), "Strew on her roses", published 1956 [ SATB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mabel Nightingale Woodward (1876 - 1911), "Requiescat", published 1912 [ voice and piano ], from Songs, no. 20, Birmingham : Press of the Birmingham Printers [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2004-04-14
Line count: 16
Word count: 88