Music, when soft voices die
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General information
Lyricist: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Settings by composers
- Philip Legge SATB.SATB
- Charles Hubert Hastings Parry SATB
- Charles Wood SSA
Original text and translations
English text
Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory.
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Life within the sense they quicken.
Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
are heaped, heaped for the beloved's bed;
and so thy thoughts, when thou art gone.
Love itself shall slumber on.