by Mary Coleridge (1861 - 1907)
Come back to me my swallow
Language: English
Come back to me my swallow And leave me not forlorn, Into the woods I follow The footsteps of the morn. I thread the rustling hollow Before the day is born, Come back to me my swallow And leave me not forlorn! The light was dark without thee, My bird of April days, I almost came to doubt thee When thou hadst gone thy ways -- The sunshine round about thee -- Into the land of rays. The light was dark without thee, My bird of April days.
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Text Authorship:
- by Mary Coleridge (1861 - 1907), "Come back to me my swallow", appears in Poems, no. 85, first published 1907 [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 Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (1852 - 1924), "The swallow", op. 119 (Eight partsongs) no. 6, published 1910 [ SSAA chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-02-04
Line count: 16
Word count: 86