by William Blake (1757 - 1827)
Memory, hither come
Language: English
Memory, hither come And tune your merry notes; And while upon the wind Your music floats, I'll pore upon the stream, Where sighing lovers dream, And fish for fancies as they pass Within the watery glass. I'll drink of the clear stream, And hear the linnet's song, And there I'll lie and dream The day along; And when night comes I'll go To places fit for woe, Walking along the darkened valley, With silent melancholy.
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Text Authorship:
- by William Blake (1757 - 1827), "Memory, hither come", written 1783, appears in Poetical Sketches [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 Malcolm Henry Arnold (1921 - 2006), "Memory, hither come", op. 66 no. 2 (1959), published 1966, from Five William Blake Songs, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Horace Percival Barton (1872 - 1951), "Memory, hither come" [ four-part chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Fairfax Birch (b. 1917), "Memory", op. 21 no. 2, published c1952 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Maurice Blower (1894 - 1982), "Memory", published c1961 [ three-part chorus, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hubert Sydney Brown (1898 - 1949), "Memory", published 1926, from Two Lyrics, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by William Busch (1901 - 1945), "Memory", 1943, published 1944 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edwin James Nairn Carr (b. 1926), "Memory, hither come", 1952 [ 2-part children's chorus and small orchestra, harp, and piano ], from A Blake Cantata, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Theodore Ward Chanler (1902 - 1961), "Memory", 1919?, published c1946 [ medium voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Jackson Cumming (b. 1928), "Memory, Hither Come", 1956, published 1966 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Jackson Cumming (b. 1928), "Memory, hither come", 1956, published c1966 [ medium voice and piano ], NY : Boosey & Hawkes [sung text not yet checked]
- by William Edmondstoune Duncan (1866 - 1920), "Memory", published 1919, from English Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Thomas Frederick Dunhill (1877 - 1946), "Memory", published c1902 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], London : Laudy & Co. (Bosworth) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Dilys Elwyn-Edwards, née Roberts (b. 1918), "Memory, hither come", 1964 [ SATB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jacqueline Fontyn (b. 1930), "Song", copyright © 1996 [ mezzo-soprano or contralto and woodwinds ], from Blake's Mirror, no. 4, Molenaar Edition B.V., Wormerveer, Holland [sung text not yet checked]
- by James Friskin (1886 - 1967), "Memory, hither come" [ SATB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Scott Gendel (b. 1977), "Memory", 2005 [ soprano and violin ], from Shadow Songs, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alfred Matthew Hale (1875 - 1960), "Memory, hither come", op. 16 no. 8, published 1910 [ voice and piano ], from Twelve Songs, no. 8, London : A. Lengnick [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Harvey , "Memory", published 1968 [ soprano and SSA chorus ], NY : Warner Bros. Publications, Seven Arts ; London : Blossom Music [sung text not yet checked]
- by John (Nicholson) Ireland (1879 - 1962), "Memory", 1903, published c1912 [ voice and piano ], from Songs of a Wayfarer, no. 1, London: Boosey & Hawkes [sung text checked 1 time]
- by John (Nicholson) Ireland (1879 - 1962), "The darkened valley", published 1921 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Sergius Kagen (1909 - 1964), "Memory hither come", published 1952 [ medium voice and piano ], NY : Mercury Music Corp. [sung text not yet checked]
- by David Stevenson Kechley (b. 1947), "Song : Memory, hither come", first performed 1974 [ SATB chorus and harp ], from Faint Harps and Silver Voices, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frank Lewin (1925 - 2008), "Song: Memory, hither come", published 1960, first performed 1961 [ soprano and chamber ensemble ], from Innocence and Experience, no. 3, New York, American Composers Alliance [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Mitchell (b. 1941), "Memory, hither come", op. 1 no. 4 (1964/77), from Seven Songs from William Blake, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Daniel Rogers Pinkham (1923 - 2006), "Memory, hither come", published c1979 [ soprano and alto voices ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953), "Dream valley", op. 20 no. 1 (1916), published 1917 [ voice and piano ], from Three Blake Songs, no. 1, also set in a German translation by Ida Goldschmidt-Livingston ; Winthrop Rogers [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Winthrop L. Rogers , "Memory", published c1915 [ high voice and piano ], from Three Poems by William Blake, no. 1, NY : G. Schirmer [sung text not yet checked]
- by Margaret Ada Sutherland (1897 - 1984), "Memory, hither come", c1950, published 1973 [ voice and piano ], from Four Blake Songs, no. 1, Sydney : J. Albert & Sons (Belwin-Mills) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ronald Tremain (b. 1923), "Memory, hither come", published 1957 [ children's chorus in unison ], London : Novello [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2003-10-12
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Word count: 75