Songs and Poems by Tennyson (Lear, Edward)

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Work Title Songs and Poems by Tennyson
Alternative. Title Set to Music by Edward Lear
Composer Lear, Edward
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No. None [force assignment]
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 12 songs
  1. Edward Gray (sweet Emma Moreland of yonder town)
  2. A Farewell (flow down, cold rivulet)
  3. Tears, idle tears
  4. Sweet and low, wind of the Western sea
  5. Home they brought her warrior dead
  6. As through the land at eve we went
  7. Come not when I am dead
  8. O let the solid ground not fail
  9. The time draws near (In Memoriam)
  10. Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel
  11. The song of love and death
  12. Too late, too late
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. 1871
First Publication. 1871
Librettist Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
Language English
Dedication Mrs. Alfred Tennyson
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Romantic
Piece Style Classical
Instrumentation voice, piano
Extra Information Composed by the famous nonsense poet.