Ah! My heart is weary waiting (John Bunyan Herbert)

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• (Posted 2023-10-26)  CPDL #76721:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-26).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 363 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Ah! My heart is weary waiting
Composer: John Bunyan Herbert
Lyricists: Pedro Calderón de la Barca and Denis Florence MacCarthy
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1886 Fillmore Bros.
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

Ah! my heart is weary waiting,
Waiting for the May—
Waiting for the pleasant rambles,
Where the fragrant hawthorn brambles,
With the woodbine alternating,
Scent the dewy way.
Ah! my heart is weary waiting,
Waiting for the May.

Ah! my heart is sick with longing,
Longing for the May—
Longing to escape from study,
To the young face fair and ruddy,
And the thousand charms belonging
To the summer’s day.
Ah! my heart is sick with longing,
Longing for the May.

Ah! my heart is sore with sighing,
Sighing for the May—
Sighing for their sure returning,
When the summer beams are burning,
Hopes and flowers, that dead or dying,
All the winter lay.
Ah! my heart is sore with sighing,
Sighing for the May.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Translation by Denis Florence MacCarthy