Music, when soft voices die (Arthur Somervell)

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• (Posted 2023-12-10)  CPDL #78044:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-10).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 346 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Music, when soft voices die
Composer: Arthur Somervell
Lyricist: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Quartet

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1903 Boosey & Co.
Description: Quartet from “Wind Flowers”

Original text and translations

English text

Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory;
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.

Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heaped for the beloved’s bed;
And so thy thoughts,—when thou art gone
Love itself shall slumber on.