In dreams (Ralph Vaughan Williams)

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Contributor: David Newman (submitted 2008-06-08).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 314 kbytes    Copyright: Public Domain

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General Information

Title: In Dreams
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Lyricist: Robert Louis Stevenson

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Baritone Solo
Genre: Secular, Art song

Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: 1907

Description: "In Dreams" is Number 5 in the set of nine songs called "Songs of Travel".

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• Art Song Central resources for this work.

Original text and translations

English text

In dreams unhappy, I behold you stand

As heretofore:

The unremember’d tokens in your hand

Avail no more.

No more the morning glow, no more the grace,

Enshrines, endears.

Cold beats the light of time upon your face

And shows your tears.

He came and went. Perchance you wept awhile

And then forgot.

Ah me! But he that left you with a smile

Forgets you not.

Lyrics: Robert Louis Stevenson - (1850-1894) - from "Songs of Travel".