Claribel | Where Claribel low-lieth

Where Claribel low‑lieth

Language: English

Where Claribel low-lieth
The breezes pause and die,
Letting the rose-leaves fall;
But the solemn oak-tree sigheth,
Thick-leaved, ambrosial,
With an ancient melody
Of an inward agony,
Where Claribel low-lieth.

At eve the beetle boometh
Athwart the thicket lone;
At noon the wild bee hummeth
About the moss'd headstone;
At midnight the moon cometh,
And looketh down alone.
Her song the lintwhite swelleth,
The clear-voiced mavis dwelleth,
The callow throstle lispeth,
The slumbrous wave outwelleth,
The babbling runnel crispeth,
The hollow grot replieth
Where Claribel low-lieth.

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Text Authorship:

by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892), "Claribel", appears in Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, first published 1830 [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 W. Borrow , "Claribel", published 1868 [ four-part chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Greville Cooke , "Claribel", published 1928 [ satb chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
by James Munro Coward (1824 - 1880), "Where Claribel low-lieth", published <<1892 [ four-part chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
by John Linton Gardner (1917 - 2011), "Claribel, a Melody", op. 122 no. ? (1974) [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Tennyson Trip [sung text not yet checked]
by Edwin Gerschefski (b. 1909), "Claribel", op. 3, copyright © 1967 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Michael (Dewar) Head (1900 - 1976), "Claribel", 1917, published 1920 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Henry Albert Lambeth (1822 - 1895), "Where Claribel low-lieth", published 1871 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (1848 - 1918), "Where Claribel low-lieth" [ high voice, strings, 2 horns ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Henry Hugo Pierson (1816 - 1873), "Claribel", published 1861 [ voice and piano ], also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text not yet checked]
by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958), "Claribel", 1896-1902, published 1906, first performed 1904 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by B. M. Waddington , "Where Claribel low-lieth", published <<1892 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Adolf Strodtmann (1829 - 1879) , "Claribel", subtitle: "Eine Melodie" ; composed by Otto Feller, Adolf Jensen, Richard von Perger.
Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Karoline (or Caroline) Wilhelmine Leonhardt (1811 - 1899) ; composed by Henry Hugo Pierson.
Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Sopran Camillo Engel.

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2008-04-22
Line count: 21
Word count: 86