Let me love - (2013) ![](images/01_Little_Green_Dot.gif)
Sara Teasdale
for mezzo soprano and piano
for Marilyn
Until I lose my soul and lie
Blind to the beauty of the earth,
Deaf tho' a lyric wind goes by,
Dumb in a storm of mirth;
Until my heart is quenched at length
And I have left the land of men,
Oh, let me love with all my strength
Careless if I am loved again.
1 page, circa 2' 45"
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Sara Teasdale
The text is originally titled, "A prayer", from the collection, Rivers to the Sea, published in 1915. For other settings of Teasdale's texts, click here.
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The extremely simple pendulum between tonic and sub-dominant is decorated with a moving interior line adding the coloration against the triads. The setting is a simple verse form, which repeats the phrase of the second stanza, "let me love." For this the title is changed from the name in 1915 to this.
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The score for Let me love is available as a free PDF download, though any major commercial performance or recording of the work is prohibited without prior arrangement with the composer. Click on the graphic below for this piano-vocal score.
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Let me love
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