Summer longings (John Henry Rheem)

Music files

L E G E N D

Disclaimer

How to download

ICON	SOURCE
	Pdf
	Mp3
	File details
	Help

• (Posted 2023-12-01)  CPDL #77764:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-01).   Score information: Letter, 16 pages, 599 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes:

General Information

Title: Summer longings
Composer: John Henry Rheem
Lyricist: Denis Florence MacCarthy
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1874 J. C. Crandall
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

Ah! my heart is weary waiting,
Waiting for the May—
Waiting for the pleasant rambles,
Where the fragrant hawthorn rambles,
With the woodbine alternating,
Scent the dewy way.
Ah! my heart is weary waiting,
Waiting for the May.

Ah! my heart is pained with throbbing,
Throbbing for the May—
Throbbing for the seaside billows,
On the water-wooing willows,
Where in laughing and in robbing
Glides the streams away.
Ah! my heart, my heart is throbbing,
Throbbing for the May.