Thy dark eyes to mine

Song TitleThy dark eyes to mine (Search)
Composer(s):Charles T. Griffes
Composer Underrepresented GroupLGBTQ+ (Search)
Author(s):William Sharp (as Fiona Macleod)
Keyword(s) & Features: Addressee: Lover; Beauty; Bliss; Calling; Dark; Desire; Dreaming; Echoes; Eilidh; Eyes; Falling; Far; Fire; Heaven; Kisses; Lamps; Leaping; Light; Lost; Metaphor: Eyes as Lamps; Metaphor: Speaker as Star; Personification: Soul; Souls; Sounds; Stars; Whispers
First LineThy dark eyes to mine, Eilidh (Search)
Average Duration2:45 (Search)
Year of composition 1918 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttps://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=16553
Larger WorkThree poems by Fiona McLeod (Search)
Musical FormTernary (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsHermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Score Source https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015007910352&view=1up&seq=5
Audio Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jk0ijigIOY
Catalog DesignationOp. 11 no. 2 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerHigh voice
Range: Eb4 - Ab5 (Search)
Original KeyAb Major (Search)
Dedicated ToMarcia van Dresser (Search)
ContributorGTM (Search)
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