Ralph Vaughan Williams -
The English Song Series, Volume 14: Songs of Travel / The House of Life / Four Poems by Fredegond Shove
The House of Life: Love-sight
When do I see thee most, beloved one?
When in the light the spirits of mine eyes
Before thy face, their altar, solemnize
The worship of that love thro' thee made known?
Or when, in the dusk hours (we two alone),
Close-kissed and eloquent of still replies
Thy twilight-hidden glimmering visage lies,
And my soul only sees thy soul its own?
O love, my love! if I no more should see
Thyself, nor on the earth the shadow of thee,
Nor image of thine eyes in any spring,—
How then should sound upon Life's darkening slope
The ground-whirl of the perished leaves of Hope,
The wind of Death's imperishable wing?
When in the light the spirits of mine eyes
Before thy face, their altar, solemnize
The worship of that love thro' thee made known?
Or when, in the dusk hours (we two alone),
Close-kissed and eloquent of still replies
Thy twilight-hidden glimmering visage lies,
And my soul only sees thy soul its own?
O love, my love! if I no more should see
Thyself, nor on the earth the shadow of thee,
Nor image of thine eyes in any spring,—
How then should sound upon Life's darkening slope
The ground-whirl of the perished leaves of Hope,
The wind of Death's imperishable wing?
Credits
Writer(s): Ralph Vaughan Williams, Christina G Rossetti
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Other Album Tracks
- Songs of Travel: The Vagabond
- Songs of Travel: Let Beauty Awake
- Songs of Travel: The Roadside Fire
- Songs of Travel: Youth and Love
- Songs of Travel: In Dreams
- Songs of Travel: The Infinite Shining Heavens
- Songs of Travel: Whither Must I Wander?
- Songs of Travel: Bright Is the Ring of Words
- Songs of Travel: I Have Trod the Upward and the Downward Slope
- The House of Life: Love-sight
Altri album
- Vaughan Williams Live, Vol. 3 (Live) [2022 Remastered Version]
- Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos 5 & 6
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- Hodie, Movement 5 Choral SATB - Ralph Vaughan Williams
- The Old Hundredth Psalm Tune SATB - Ralph Vaughan Williams
- English Works for Viola & Orchestra
- Vaughan Williams: Dona Nobis Pacem / Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
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