My spirit sang all day

(2025)

for SATB choir

Written for The Founder’s Choir of Royal Holloway

  • Performed by The Founder’s Choir of Royal Holloway and Luke Cherry (Conductor) on 25 June 2025 at St. John’s Church, Riga, Latvia

  • SATB choir (divisi)

  • My spirit sang all day
    O my joy.
    Nothing my tongue could say,
    Only My joy!
    My heart an echo caught
    O my joy
    And spake,
    Tell me thy thought,
    Hide not thy joy.
    My eyes gan peer around,
    O my joy
    What beauty hast thou found?
    Shew us thy joy.
    My jealous ears grew whist;
    O my joy
    Music from heaven is't,
    Sent for our joy?
    She also came and heard;
    O my joy,
    What, said she, is this word?
    What is thy joy?
    And I replied,
    O see, O my joy,
    'Tis thee, I cried, 'tis thee:
    Thou art my joy.

    Robert Bridges
    (1844 - 1930)

  • 3’

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