Crossing the bar

General information

Lyricist: Alfred Tennyson.

Settings by composers (automatically updated)

• Joseph Barnby — Crossing the bar  English SATB
• Henry Holden Huss — Crossing the Bar  English SATB
• Charles Hubert Hastings Parry — Crossing the bar  English SATB
• Charles Villiers Stanford — Crossing the bar  English Solo Tenor
• Herbert Hall Woodward — Crossing the bar  English SATB

Text and translations

English text

Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea.
But such a tide as, moving, seems asleep,
Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.
Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell
When I embark;
For, though from out our bourne of time and place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crost the bar.