A farewell | Flow down, cold rivulet, to the sea

Flow down, cold rivulet, to the sea

Language: English

Flow down, cold rivulet, to the sea,
Thy tribute wave deliver:
No more by thee my steps shall be,
For ever and for ever.

Flow, softly flow, by lawn and lea,
A rivulet then a river;
No where by thee my steps shall be,
For ever and for ever.

But here will sigh thine alder tree,
And here thine aspen shiver;
And here by thee will hum the bee,
For ever and for ever.

A thousand suns will stream on thee,
A thousand moons will quiver;
But not by thee my steps shall be,
For ever and for ever.

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Text Authorship:

by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892), "A farewell", first published 1842 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by William Amps (flourished 1850), "Flow down, cold rivulet", published [1849] [ vocal quartet (with piano?) ], from Six Vocal Quartetts, London : Novello [sung text not yet checked]
by Edward R. G. W. Andrews , "A farewell", published c1886 [ voice and piano ], London: Novello [sung text not yet checked]
by Frederick Cook Atkinson (1841 - 1897), "A farewell", published [BL 1863] [ voice and piano ], London: Jewell [sung text not yet checked]
by Charles Ainslie Barry (1830 - 1915), "Flow, softly flow", published [BL 1854] [ voice and piano ], London : Ollivier [sung text not yet checked]
by Adrian Beaumont (b. 1937), "A farewell", op. 22 no. ? [ baritone and piano ], from The Pale Horizon [sung text not yet checked]
by James Charles Beazley (1850 - ?), "Flow down cold rivulet", <<1892 [ voice and flute obbligato ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Julius Benedict (1804 - 1885), "A farewell", published 1880 [ voice and piano ], London: C. Kegan Paul [sung text not yet checked]
by William Richard Bexfield (1824 - 1853), "A farewell", published [BL 1881] [ voice and piano ], London: Novello [sung text not yet checked]
by John Blockley (1800 - 1882), "Flow down cold rivulet", <<1892 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Maurice Blower (1894 - 1982), "The rivulet", published 1958 [ SSA chorus and piano ], London : Alfred Lengnick & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
by William Richardson Dempster (1809 - 1871), "Flow down cold rivulet", published [BL 1863] [ voice and piano ], London: Cocks [sung text not yet checked]
by Joseph Holbrooke (1878 - 1958), "A farewell", op. 30 no. 5 (1904), published 1906 [ high voice and piano ], from Six Romantic Songs, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
by S. Ings , "The rivulet", published [BL 1855] [ voice and piano ], London: Cramer, Beale & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
by Edward Lear (1812 - 1888), "A farewell", published <<1859 [ voice and piano ], London: Cramer, Beale & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
by A. J. Leavy , "A farewell", <<1892 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Franco Leoni (1864 - 1949), "A farewell", published 1899 [ duet with piano ], London: Chappell & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
by Bertram Luard-Selby (1853 - 1918), "Flow down, cold rivulet", published <<1885 [ vocal trio of female voices and piano ], London: Novello [sung text not yet checked]
by Walter Cecil Macfarren (1826 - 1905), "Flow down cold rivulet", published [BL 1879] [ voice and piano ], London: Charles Ollivier [sung text not yet checked]
by George Thomas Messervy (b. 1924), "A farewell", 1958, first performed 1962 [ SA chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Paul Nelson (b. 1929), "A farewell", 1957, rev. 1972 [ double mixed chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Nolah , "A farewell", published [BL 1880] [ voice and piano ], London : A. Weekes & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
by Herbert Stanley Oakeley (1830 - 1903), "Flow down, cold rivulet", published [BL 1887] [ voice and piano ], London: Novello [sung text not yet checked]
by (Gerald) Graham Peel (1878 - 1937), "Flow down cold rivulet", published 1913 [ voice and piano ], London: Chappell & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
by Alan Ridout (b. 1934), "A farewell", published 1971 [ voice and piano ], London: Stainer & Bell [sung text not yet checked]
by Mrs. E. G. Shapcote , "Flow down cold rivulet", alternate title: "A farewell", published [BL 1857] [ voice and piano ], from Eleven songs, London: Addison & Hollier [sung text not yet checked]
by Jehu Shepherd , "Flow down cold rivulet", published 1965 [ SSA chorus or TTB chorus a cappella ], Llangollen: Gwynn, also set in Welsh (Cymraeg) [sung text not yet checked]
by Edith Stanhope , "A farewell", <<1892 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Eric Harding Thiman (1900 - 1975), "A farewell", published 1933 [ SSA chorus and piano ], London: Novello [sung text not yet checked]
by J. H. Walker , "Flow down cold rivulet", published [1886] [ voice and piano ], London: Novello [sung text not yet checked]
by Rudolph T. Werther (1896 - 1986), "A farewell", 1945-70 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by William Wilson (flourished 1830), "The rivulet", published [BL 1858] [ voice and piano ], London: Metzler & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
by Zeta , "Flow down cold rivulet", published 1854 [ voice and piano ], London: Leader & Cock [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Wilhelm Hertzberg (1813 - 1879) ; composed by Friedrich Robert Volkmann.
Also set in Welsh (Cymraeg), a translation by Euros Bowen , "Dylifa, oernaut, tua'r lli" ; composed by Jehu Shepherd.

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2010-04-18
Line count: 16
Word count: 99