The Night Piece
Music: Roger Quilter (1877–1953) · Words: Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
Her eyes the glowworm lend thee,
The shooting stars attend thee;
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The words
Her eyes the glowworm lend thee,
The shooting stars attend thee;
And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow
Like the sparks of fire, the sparks,
the sparks of fire, befriend thee.
No willo’thewisp mislight thee,
Nor snake or slowworm bite thee;
But on, on thy way Not making a stay,
Since ghost, since ghost there’s none to
affright thee.
Let not the dark thee cumber; What though the
moon does slumber? The stars of the night Will
lend thee their light, Like tapers clear
without number.
Then, Julia, let me woo thee, thus,
thus to come unto me; And when I shall meet Thy
silvery feet, My soul, my soul I’ll pour into
thee.
About this song
- Music
- Roger Quilter (1877–1953) (dates as OpenScore states them)
- Words
- Robert Herrick (1591–1674) (dates as LiederNet Archive states them)
- Language
- English, as its source states it
- First published
- in or before 1906, as IMSLP states it
- Length
- 1:36
- Its source files it as
- To Julia, Op.8
- The score
- OpenScore Lieder Corpus; CC0 1.0, as its source states it. OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
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- Not offered in
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Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0). “K-pop” and “anime songs” are said only where a source says so. Where songs from scores are offered.