Speak to Me, My Love!
Music: Frank Bridge (1879–1941) · Words: Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941)
Speak to me, my love! Tell me in words what you
sang.
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The words
Speak to me, my love! Tell me in words what you
sang.
The night is dark.
The stars are lost in clouds.
The wind is sighing through the leaves.
I will let loose my hair. My blue cloak will
cling round me like night. I will clasp your
head to my bosom; and there in the sweet
loneliness murmur on your heart.
I will shut my eyes and listen. I will not look
in your face.
When your words are ended, we will sit still
and silent.
Only the trees will whisper in the dark.
The night will pale.
The day will dawn. We shall look at each other’s
eyes and go on our different paths.
Speak, Speak to me, my love!
Tell me in words what you sang.
About this song
- Music
- Frank Bridge (1879–1941) (dates as OpenScore states them)
- Words
- Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) (dates as LiederNet Archive states them)
- Language
- English, as its source states it
- First published
- in or before 1925, as IMSLP states it
- Length
- 2:44
- Its source files it as
- 3 Tagore Songs, H.164
- The score
- OpenScore Lieder Corpus; CC0 1.0, as its source states it. OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
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