Heraclitus, Op. 110, No. 4 (Charles Villiers Stanford)

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•  Posted on 2024-03-19(Posted 2024-03-19)  CPDL #79604:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-03-19).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 404 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes:

• (Posted 2017-11-22)  CPDL #47656:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2017-11-22).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 56 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Reformatting of 10363, with minor adjustments to the underlay.

• (Posted 2005-12-07)  CPDL #10363:  PDF and MIDI files available.

Editor: Marco Gallo (submitted 2005-12-07).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 29 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: edited by Ilaria Zuccaro

General Information

Title: Heraclitus, Op. 110, No. 4
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford
Lyricist: William Johnson Cory

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1910 Stainer & Bell
Description: Four Part-Songs, Op. 110, No. 4.

External websites:

• performance of Heraclitus by dwsChorale

Original text and translations

English text

They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead,
They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed.
I wept as I remember'd how often you and I
Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.

And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest,
A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest,
Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales, awake;
For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take.

William Cory (1823–1892) (Based on an epigramme by Callimachus)