I found this beautiful poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson,
Claribel. I had heard of him in a Miss Marple movie
where she recognized a citation and knew it to be a
passage of the poem "The Lady of Shalott" by Tennyson,
and I decided to look into his works. "Claribel", with
its description of the resting place of a (presumably
loved) person, cried for a musical setting. The
emotional range of sadness due to the death of Claribel
to the comfort (and maybe joy) of seeing her resting
place in its beauty ma...(+)
I found this beautiful poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson,
Claribel. I had heard of him in a Miss Marple movie
where she recognized a citation and knew it to be a
passage of the poem "The Lady of Shalott" by Tennyson,
and I decided to look into his works. "Claribel", with
its description of the resting place of a (presumably
loved) person, cried for a musical setting. The
emotional range of sadness due to the death of Claribel
to the comfort (and maybe joy) of seeing her resting
place in its beauty made me choose this text for my
song.