1918
My Star
Composed by
Amy Marcy Beach
Amy Marcy Beach Text by
Robert Browning
Robert Browning "My Star" sets Browning's 1855 poem from his volume Men and Women. Beach sets a different poem of the same title as the first song of opus 26.
Text
My Star
by Robert Browning
All, that I know
Of a certain star
Is, it can throw
(Like the angled spar)
Now a dart of red,
Now a dart of blue
Till my friends have said
They would fain see, too,
My star that dartles the red and the blue!
Then it stops like a bird; like a flower, hangs furled:
They must solace themselves with the Saturn above it.
What matter to me if their star is a world?
Mine has opened its soul to me; therefore I love it.