Three Songs on Words by Keats (derived title)
Engraved score on vellum music score paper for medium voice and piano. The words are from John Keats' poems "Song, I had a dove", "Modern Love", and "On Visiting the Tomb of Burns". There is no collective title.Vocal, Piano9 pages; 11 x 13 1/2Song - I had a dove I...
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Alabama postcards Keats, John, 1795-1821 -- Musical settings; Vocal music -- Scores; Songs (Medium voice) with piano; Music -- Manuscripts -- Facsimiles; Vollrath, Carl, 1931- -- Manuscripts -- Facsimiles Arts and Literature -- Music Music Music; Songs & music; Keyboard instruments |
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Engraved score on vellum music score paper for medium voice and piano. The words are from John Keats' poems "Song, I had a dove", "Modern Love", and "On Visiting the Tomb of Burns". There is no collective title.Vocal, Piano9 pages; 11 x 13 1/2Song - I had a dove
I HAD a dove and the sweet dove died;
And I have thought it died of grieving:
O, what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied,
With a silken thread of my own hand's weaving;
Sweet little red feet! why should you die -
Why should you leave me, sweet bird! why?
You liv'd alone in the forest-tree,
Why, pretty thing! would you not live with me?
I kiss'd you oft and gave you white peas;
Why not live sweetly, as in the green trees?
Modern Love
And what is love? It is a doll dress’d up
For idleness to cosset, nurse, and dandle;
A thing of soft misnomers, so divine
That silly youth doth think to make itself
Divine by loving, and so goes on
Yawning and doting a whole summer long,
Till Miss’s comb is made a pearl tiara,
And common Wellingtons turn Romeo boots;
Then Cleopatra lives at number seven,
And Antony resides in Brunswick Square.
Fools! if some passions high have warm’d the world,
If Queens and Soldiers have play’d deep for hearts,
It is no reason why such agonies
Should be more common than the growth of weeds.
Fools! make me whole again that weighty pearl
The Queen of Egypt melted, and I’ll say
That ye may love in spite of beaver hats.
On Visiting the Tomb of Burns
The town, the churchyard, and the setting sun,
The clouds, the trees, the rounded hills all seem,
Though beautiful, cold — strange — as in a dream
I dreamed long ago, now new begun.
The short-liv’d, paly summer is but won
From winter’s ague for one hour’s gleam;
Through sapphire warm their stars do never beam:
All is cold Beauty; pain is never done.
For who has mind to relish, Minos-wise,
The real of Beauty, free from that dead hue
Sickly imagination and sick pride
Cast wan upon it? Burns! with honour due
I oft have honour’d thee. Great shadow, hide
Thy face; I sin against thy native skies. |
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Three Songs on Words by Keats (derived title)3 Songs on Words by Keats: Song, gently – Modern Love, jolly – On Visiting the Tomb of Burns, pensivelyEngraved score on vellum music score paper for medium voice and piano. The words are from John Keats' poems "Song, I had a dove", "Modern Love", and "On Visiting the Tomb of Burns". There is no collective title.Carl VollrathJohn Keats2022Keats, John, 1795-1821 -- Musical settings; Vocal music -- Scores; Songs (Medium voice) with piano; Music -- Manuscripts -- Facsimiles; Vollrath, Carl, 1931- -- Manuscripts -- FacsimilesArts and Literature -- MusicMusicMusic; Songs & music; Keyboard instrumentsVocal, Piano9 pages; 11 x 13 1/2This collection may be protected under Title 17 of the U.S. copyright law.Carl Vollrath Music Collection, Troy University Library, Special Collections.Song - I had a dove
I HAD a dove and the sweet dove died;
And I have thought it died of grieving:
O, what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied,
With a silken thread of my own hand's weaving;
Sweet little red feet! why should you die -
Why should you leave me, sweet bird! why?
You liv'd alone in the forest-tree,
Why, pretty thing! would you not live with me?
I kiss'd you oft and gave you white peas;
Why not live sweetly, as in the green trees?
Modern Love
And what is love? It is a doll dress’d up
For idleness to cosset, nurse, and dandle;
A thing of soft misnomers, so divine
That silly youth doth think to make itself
Divine by loving, and so goes on
Yawning and doting a whole summer long,
Till Miss’s comb is made a pearl tiara,
And common Wellingtons turn Romeo boots;
Then Cleopatra lives at number seven,
And Antony resides in Brunswick Square.
Fools! if some passions high have warm’d the world,
If Queens and Soldiers have play’d deep for hearts,
It is no reason why such agonies
Should be more common than the growth of weeds.
Fools! make me whole again that weighty pearl
The Queen of Egypt melted, and I’ll say
That ye may love in spite of beaver hats.
On Visiting the Tomb of Burns
The town, the churchyard, and the setting sun,
The clouds, the trees, the rounded hills all seem,
Though beautiful, cold — strange — as in a dream
I dreamed long ago, now new begun.
The short-liv’d, paly summer is but won
From winter’s ague for one hour’s gleam;
Through sapphire warm their stars do never beam:
All is cold Beauty; pain is never done.
For who has mind to relish, Minos-wise,
The real of Beauty, free from that dead hue
Sickly imagination and sick pride
Cast wan upon it? Burns! with honour due
I oft have honour’d thee. Great shadow, hide
Thy face; I sin against thy native skies.Troy University (Troy, Ala.) LibraryTUA_Vollrath_SCO_Three_Songs_on_Words_by_Keatsimageengjpeghttp://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/troy2/id/18602 |
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