by William Blake (1757 - 1827)
Love to faults is always blind
Language: English
Love to faults is always blind, Always is to joy inclin'd, Lawless, wing'd & unconfin'd, And breaks all chains from every mind. Deceit to secresy confin'd Lawful, cautious & refin'd To every thing but interest blind, And forges fetters for the mind.
D. Hagen sets stanza 1
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Text Authorship:
- by William Blake (1757 - 1827), no title, written 1793, appears in Notebook, in Gnomic Verses, no. 7 [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 John Linton Gardner (1917 - 2011), "To Nobodaddy", op. 138 no. 7 (c1977) [ double chorus of mixed chorus a cappella ], from Nine poems from the note-book (1793) of William Blake, no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Daron Aric Hagen (b. 1961), "To Nobodaddy", 1983-99, first performed 1999, stanza 1 [ voice and piano ], from Heart of the Stranger, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-10-16
Line count: 8
Word count: 42