Wanderer's Night Song (Charles Wood)

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• (Posted 2020-03-01)  CPDL #57329:       

Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2020-03-01).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 77 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Wanderer's Night Song
Composer: Charles Wood
Lyricist: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published:
Description:  Text is a translation of "Wanderers Nachtlied" by Goethe

Original text and translations

English text

Thou that from the heavens art,
Every pain and sorrow stillest,
And the doubly wretched heart
Doubly with refreshment fillest,
I am weary with contending!
Why this rapture and unrest?
Peace descending
Come, ah, come into my breast!