Darien Shulman: Three Poems of Thomas Moore

Darien Shulman Three Poems of Thomas Moore for voice and piano

(2007)

Texts by Thomas Moore

Darien Shulman Three Poems of Thomas Moore for voice and piano (2007)

Darien Shulman: THREE POEMS OF THOMAS MOORE for voice and piano Copyright © 2007 by Darien Shulman Music, New York All rights reserved. ASCAP. Texts for Thomas Moore's “If Thou'lt Be Mine”, “An Argument”, and “Come Rest is This Bosom” are in the public domain This edition first published in 2018 by DSS Productions, Inc. Distributed by NewMusicShelf, Inc. www.newmusicshelf.com

Texts 1. If Thou'lt Be Mine

2. An Argument

If thou'lt be mine, the treasures of air, Of earth, and sea, shall lie at thy feet; Whatever in Fancy's eye looks fair, Or in Hope's sweet music sounds most sweet, Shall be ours--if thou wilt be mine, love!

I've oft been told by learned friars, That wishing and the crime are one, And Heaven punishes desires As much as if the deed were done.

Bright flowers shall bloom wherever we rove, A voice divine shall talk in each stream; The stars shall look like worlds of love, And this earth be all one beautiful dream In our eyes--if thou wilt be mine, love!

And thoughts, whose source is hidden and high, Like streams, that come from heavenward hills, Shall keep our hearts, like meads, that lie To be bathed by those eternal rills, Ever green, if thou wilt be mine, love!

All this and more the Spirit of Love Can breathe o'er them, who feel his spells; That heaven, which forms his home above, He can make on earth, wherever he dwells, As thou'lt own.--if thou wilt be mine, love!

If wishing damns us, you and I Are damned to all our heart's content; Come, then, at least we may enjoy Some pleasure for our punishment!

3. Come Rest in This Bosom Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer, Tho' the herd have fled from thee, thy home is still here; Here still is the smile, that no cloud can o'ercast, And a heart and a hand all thy own to the last.

Oh! what was love made for, if 'tis not the same Thro' joy and thro' torment, thro' glory and shame?

I know not, I ask not, if guilt's in that heart, I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art.

Thou hast called me thy Angel in moments of bliss, And thy Angel I'll be, mid the horrors of this,-Thro' the furnace, unshrinking, thy steps to pursue, And shield thee, and save thee,--or perish there too!

Three Poems of Thomas Moore was commissioned by the Tobenski-Algera Concert Series and was first performed on 19 June 2007

by Dennis Tobenski (tenor) and Marc Peloquin (piano

Duration: 8 minutes

Three Poems of Thomas Moore was first recorded by Dennis Tobenski and Marc Peloquin for Perfect Enemy Records, PER-1

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