Lyr Add: Take Back the Heart (Claribel)

Subject: Lyr Add: TAKE BACK THE HEART
From: JenEllen
Date: 03 Dec 02 - 02:59 PM

TAKE BACK THE HEART
Claribel

Take back the heart thou gavest
What is my anguish to thee?
Take back the freedom thou cravest
Leaving the fetters to me
Take back the vows thou hast spoken
Fling them aside and be free
Smile over each pitiful token
Leaving the sorrows for me
Drink deep of life's fond illusion
Gaze on the storm clouds and flee
Swiftly through strife and confusion
Leaving the burden to me

Then when at last overtaken
Time flings its fetters o'er thee
Come back with a trust still unshaken
Come back a captive to me
Come back in sadness or sorrow
Once more my darling to be
Come as of old love to borrow
Glimpses of sunlight from me
Love shall resume her dominion
Striving no more to be free
When on her world-weary pinion
Flies back my lost love to me

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: TAKE BACK THE HEART
From: kendall
Date: 03 Dec 02 - 07:48 PM

My father used to say his favorite song was Take Back the heart...I ordered liver.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: TAKE BACK THE HEART
From: masato sakurai
Date: 04 Dec 02 - 07:34 PM

From Levy:

Title: Take Back the Heart. Song.
Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: By Claribel.
Publication: Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co., 277 Washington St., n.d..
Form of Composition: strophic
Instrumentation: piano and voice
First Line: Take back the heart that thou gavest, what is my anguish to thee!
Plate Number: 23509
Subject: Unrequited love
Subject: Distress
Call No.: Box: 176 Item: 075

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: TAKE BACK THE HEART
From: masato sakurai
Date: 05 Dec 02 - 03:47 AM

According to Public Domain Music: More American Civil War Music, which has lyrics and midi, "Take Back the Heart (Song)" was written & composed by Claribel (pseud. for Mrs. Charles C. Barnard nee Charlette Alington) in 1864.