Lyric Companion
Composer

E. Freer

32 works in the catalog — read each text with IPA transcriptions and translations.

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LIEDER · 32

When is life's youth?

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Like a shooting star, love!

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Be true

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After the rain

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Before the rain

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Étude réaliste

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I lift my heavy heart up solemnly

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What can I give thee back, O liberal

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Can it be right to give what I can give?

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Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed

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And therefore if to love can be desert

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Indeed this very love which is my boast

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And wilt thou have me fashion into speech

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My poet, thou canst touch on all the notes

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I never gave a lock of hair away

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The soul's Rialto hath its merchandize

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Beloved, my Beloved, when I think

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Is it indeed so?

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Let the world's sharpness like a clasping knife

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A heavy heart, Belovëd, have I borne

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I lived with visions for my company

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I think of thee! -- my thoughts do twine and bud

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I see thine image through my tears to-night

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Thou comest! all is said without a word

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Yes, call me by my pet-name!

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When we met first and loved, I did not build

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Pardon, oh, pardon, that my soul should make

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Because thou hast the power and own'st the grace

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I thank all who have loved me in their hearts

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My future will not copy fair my past

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I heard last night a little child go singing

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The harvest moon

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When is life's youth?

1864·a-book-of-songs
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Like a shooting star, love!

1864·a-book-of-songs
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Be true

1864·a-book-of-songs
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After the rain

1864
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Before the rain

1864
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Étude réaliste

1864
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I lift my heavy heart up solemnly

1864·sonnets-from-the-portuguese
EN

What can I give thee back, O liberal

1864·sonnets-from-the-portuguese
EN