Sleep now (Jennifer Bastable)

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• (Posted 2025-05-03)  CPDL #84754:       

Editor: Jennifer Bastable (submitted 2025-05-03).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 346 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Sleep now
Composer: Jennifer Bastable
Lyricist: James Joyce
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published:
Description: A setting for five voices, of poem 34 from Chamber Music, (publ. 1907).

Original text and translations

English text

Sleep now, O sleep now,
O you unquiet heart!
A voice crying "Sleep now"
Is heard in my heart.

The voice of the winter
Is heard at the door.
O sleep, for the winter
Is crying "Sleep no more."

My kiss will give peace now
And quiet to your heart –
Sleep on in peace now,
O you unquiet heart!