How warm this woodland wild Recess ! Love surely hath been breathing here ; And this sweet bed of heath, my dear ! Swells up, then sinks with faint caress, As if to have you yet more near.
Recollections of Love
Song Cycle by John Linton Gardner (1917 - 2011)
1. How warm this woodland wild Recess  [sung text not yet checked]
Text Authorship:
- by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834), appears in Recollections of Love, no. 1
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]2. Eight springs have flown  [sung text not yet checked]
Eight springs have flown, since last I lay On sea-ward Quantock's heathy hills, Where quiet sounds from hidden rills Float hear and there, like things astray, And high o'er head the sky-lark shrills.
Text Authorship:
- by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834), appears in Recollections of Love, no. 2
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]3. No voice as yet had made the air  [sung text not yet checked]
No voice as yet had made the air Be music with your name ; yet why That asking look ? that yearning sigh ? That sense of promise every where ? Belovéd ! flew your spirit by ?
Text Authorship:
- by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834), appears in Recollections of Love, no. 3
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]4. As when a mother doth explore  [sung text not yet checked]
As when a mother doth explore The rose-mark on her long-lost child, I met, I loved you, maiden mild ! As whom I long had loved before -- So deeply had I been beguiled.
Text Authorship:
- by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834), appears in Recollections of Love, no. 4
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]5. You stood before me like a thought  [sung text not yet checked]
You stood before me like a thought, A dream remembered in a dream. But when those meek eyes first did seem To tell me, Love within you wrought-- O Greta, dear domestic stream !
Text Authorship:
- by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834), appears in Recollections of Love, no. 5
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]6. Has not, since then, Love's prompture deep  [sung text not yet checked]
Has not, since then, Love's prompture deep, Has not Love's whisper evermore Been ceaseless, as thy gentle roar ? Sole voice, when other voices sleep, Dear under-song in clamor's hour.
Text Authorship:
- by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834), appears in Recollections of Love, no. 6
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]7. A slumber did my spirit seal  [sung text not yet checked]
A slumber did my spirit seal; I had no human fears: She seem'd a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force; She neither hears nor sees; Roll'd round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees.
Text Authorship:
- by William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850), "Lucy V", written 1802, appears in Lyrical Ballads
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