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Love, if you knew the light
English source:
Robert Browning
Love, if you knew the light
That your soul casts in my sight,
How I look to you
For the pure and true,
And the beauteous and the right.
That your soul casts in my sight,
How I look to you
For the pure and true,
And the beauteous and the right.
Composer
Liza Lehmann
Elisabetha ‘Liza’ Lehmann (1862-1918) was born into a middle-class English family in 1862. She began her career as a singer, performing her debut at an 1885 ‘Monday Pops’ concert in St James’s Hall. Inspired by her studies in Germany with Clara…
Poet
Robert Browning
Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. His poems are known for their irony, characterization, dark humour, social…