"The Self Banished" is a poem written by Edmund Waller in about 1645. It was set to music by the baroque composer John Blow in 1700. [1]
It is also one of the first songs written by the English composer Edward Elgar. Composed in 1875, specifically for "soprano or tenor", it was unpublished until recently.
Blow set stanzas 1 and 2. Elgar added a stanza beginning with his own spelling of "Absence".
THE SELF-BANISHED
"The Self Banished" is a poem written by Edmund Waller in about 1645. It was set to music by the baroque composer John Blow in 1700. [1]
It is also one of the first songs written by the English composer Edward Elgar. Composed in 1875, specifically for "soprano or tenor", it was unpublished until recently.
Blow set stanzas 1 and 2. Elgar added a stanza beginning with his own spelling of "Absence".
THE SELF-BANISHED