Love alone will stay

" Love alone will stay" is a poem set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1888. The poem was written in 1897 by his wife, Caroline Alice Elgar.

The song was published in a cultural magazine “The Dome” - “a Quarterly containing Examples of All the Arts” [”The Dome”, London: Published at The Unicorn Press xxvi Pater-Noster Square on New Year’s Day mdcccxcviii pages 90-91] . It is artistically scripted in Elgar’s own hand, and signed and dated “12.IX.97.”

Elgar later included it as the second song, renamed "In Haven", in his song-cycle for voice and orchestra "Sea Pictures". The words are slightly different, and the first two verses interchanged.

Lyrics

References

*Kennedy, Michael, "Portrait of Elgar" (Oxford University Press, 1968) ISBN 0193154145
*Moore, Jerrold N. “Edward Elgar: a creative life” (Oxford University Press, 1984) ISBN 0193154471

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