Music, when soft voices die

General information

Lyricist: Percy Bysshe Shelley

Settings by composers (automatically updated)

• Edward Bairstow — Music, when soft voices die  English TTBB
• Frank Bridge — Music, when soft voices die  English SATB
• Philip Legge — Music, when soft voices die  English SATB.SATB
• Charles Hubert Hastings Parry — Music, when soft voices die  English SATB
• Charles Wood — Music, when soft voices die  English SSA
• Charles Wood — Music, when soft voices die (SATB)  English SATB

Text and translations

English text

Music, when soft voices die,
vibrates in the memory.
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
live 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.