# The Poet’s Life

- Music: Edward Elgar (died 1934)
- Words: Sophie Jewett (died 1909)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6236152

## The words

A poet sang, so light of heart was he,  
A song that thrilled with joy in ev’ry word:  
It quiver’d with ecstatic melody;  
It laughed as sunshine laughs upon the sea;  
It caught a measure from each lilting bird;  
But, though the song rang out exultantly,  
The world pass’d by, with heavy step and loud,  
None heeding,  
save that, parted from the crowd,  
Two lovers heard.  
There fell a day when sudden sorrow smote The  
poet’s life. Unheralded it came,  
Blotting the suntouch’d page whereon he wrote  
His golden song. Ah! then, from all from all  
remote, He sang the grief that had nor hope nor  
name In God’s ear only,  
In God’s ear only; But one sobbing note  
Reached the world's heart, And swiftly,  
swiftly, in the wake Of bitterness and  
passion and heartbreak, There follow’d fame;  
One sobbing note reach’d the world's heart,  
There follow’d fame and swiftly,  
swiftly  
follow’d fame.  

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).