When we two parted (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
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CPDL #17146: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2008-06-07). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 63 kB Copyright: CPDL
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Title: When We Two Parted
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron), "When we two parted", from Poems, published 1816
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Tenor solo
Genre: Secular, Art song
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: 1896
Description: Number 3 of Charles Hubert Hastings Parry's "English Lyrics" - Set 4
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Original text and translations
English text
- When we two parted
- In silence and tears,
- Half broken-hearted
- To sever for years,
- Pale grew thy cheek and cold,
- Colder thy kiss;
- Truly that hour foretold
- Sorrow to this.
- The dew of the morning
- Sunk chill on my brow --
- It felt like the warning
- Of what I feel now.
- Thy vows are all broken,
- And light is thy fame;
- I hear thy name spoken,
- And share in its shame.
- They name thee before me,
- A knell to mine ear;
- A shudder comes o'er me --
- Why wert thou so dear?
- They know not I knew thee,
- Who knew thee too well:--
- Long, long shall I rue thee,
- Too deeply to tell.
- In secret we met --
- In silence I grieve
- That thy heart could forget,
- Thy spirit deceive.
- If I should meet thee
- After long years,
- How should I greet thee? --
- With silence and tears.