Come to me, gentle sleep (Frederic Hymen Cowen)

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• (Posted 2023-10-06)  CPDL #76103:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-06).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 571 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Come to me, gentle sleep
Composer: Frederic Hymen Cowen
Lyricist: Felicia Hemans
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1906 Novello and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Come to me, gentle sleep!
I pine, I pine for thee;
Come with thy spells, the soft, the deep,
And set my spirit free!
Each lonely, burning thought,
In twilight languor steep–
Come to the full heart, long o’erwrought,
O gentle, gentle sleep!

Come with thine urn of dew,
Sleep, gentle sleep! yet bring
No voice, love’s yearning to renew,
No vision on thy wing!
Come, as to folding flowers,
To birds in forests deep;
–Long, dark, and dreamless be thine hours,
O gentle, gentle sleep!