by Langdon Elwyn Mitchell (1862 - 1935)
When lovers meet again
Language: English
When lovers meet again, Then obscure ways grow plain, Then crooked paths are straight and rough places smooth, Then weariness and weight Have wings as wide as love. For night is as the day; Love smiles love's tears away And all hard paths are smooth, When lovers meet again. When lovers kiss again The dry bough blossoms then; Then rolls away the stone; Earth's bitterness is balm; Light through the night is blown; Peace rocks the world in calm; And the ebbing tide is full: For two souls are one soul, And obscrue ways grow plain, When lovers meet again.
Authorship:
- by Langdon Elwyn Mitchell (1862 - 1935), "When lovers meet again", from Poems, first published 1894 [author's text not yet checked 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 Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (1848 - 1918), "When lovers meet again", 1895-6, published 1896, from the collection English Lyrics, Fourth Set, no. 2. [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this page: John Fowler
This text was added to the website: 2008-06-09
Line count: 20
Word count: 100