Historic Sheet Music Collection
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Document Type
Score
Links to Recordings at the Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/78_the-rosary_alan-turner-victor-orchestra-nevin_gbia0022254a
https://archive.org/details/78_the-rosary_alma-gluck-efrem-zimbalist-nevin_gbia0016539b
https://archive.org/details/78_the-rosary_bobby-breen-8-years-old-robert-cameron-rogers-ethelbert-nevins_gbia0008647b
https://archive.org/details/78_the-rosary_carolina-lazzari-ethelbert-nevin_gbia0023325b
https://archive.org/details/78_the-rosary_charles-harrison-nevin_gbia0014426b
https://archive.org/details/78_the-rosary_douglas-stanbury-nevin-rogers_gbia0037911b
https://archive.org/details/78_the-rosary_e.-nevin-henry-burr_gbia0000298b
https://archive.org/details/78_the-rosary_ernest-davis-ethelbert-nevin_gbia0011112b
https://archive.org/details/78_the-rosary_ernst-albert-couturier-e-nevin_gbia0023221a
https://archive.org/details/78_the-rosary_ethelbert-nevin-john-mccormack_gbia0000614a
https://archive.org/details/78_the-rosary_fr-p-mckenna-op-fr-j-b-affleck-op-rosalind-russell-rosa-rio_gbia0020436
https://archive.org/details/78_the-rosary_fred-feibel-nevin_gbia0022448b
https://archive.org/details/78_the-rosary_fritz-kreisler-nevin-carl-lamson_gbia0016604a
https://archive.org/details/78_the-rosary_fritz-kreisler-nevin-carl-lamson_gbia0019964a
https://archive.org/details/78_the-rosary_henry-burr_gbia0018319b
https://archive.org/details/78_the-rosary_hilo-hawaiian-orchestra-ethelbert-nevin_gbia0001927b
https://archive.org/details/78_the-rosary_john-barnes-wells-ethelbert-nevin_gbia0015533a
https://archive.org/details/78_the-rosary_john-mccormack-ethelbert-nevin-victor-orchestra_gbia0019957a
https://archive.org/details/78_the-rosary_nevin_gbia0012896b
https://archive.org/details/78_the-rosary_nevin_gbia0018200a
https://archive.org/details/78_the-rosary_nevin-alma-gluck-and-efrem-zimbalist_gbia0033113a
https://archive.org/details/78_the-rosary_nevin-leon-l-handzlik-arthur-pryors-band_gbia0027538b
https://archive.org/details/78_the-rosary_pale-k.-lua-of-the-irene-west-royal-hawaiians-nevin_gbia0004038b
https://archive.org/details/78_the-rosary_richard-crooks-herbert-dawson-nevin-john-barbirolli_gbia0033118b
https://archive.org/details/78_the-rosary_the-mariners-r-rogers-nevin-archie-bleyer_gbia0019092b
https://archive.org/details/78_the-rosary_venetian-trio-ethelbert-nevin_gbia0006427b
https://archive.org/details/78_the-rosary_venetian-trio-ethelbert-nevin_gbia0013607b
https://archive.org/details/78_the-rosary_vera-lynn-bruce-campbell-and-his-orchestra-nevin-rodgers_gbia0010352a
https://archive.org/details/78_the-rosary_victor-herberts-orchestra-nevin-victor-herbert_gbia0019713a
https://archive.org/details/78_the-rosary_vincent-c.-buono-nevias_gbia0004434b
Publication Date
1912
Lyrics
[English]
The house I spent with thee, dear heart,
Are as strong as a string of pearls to me;
I count them over ev’ry one apart,
My rosary, my rosary!
Each hour a pearl, each pearl a prayer
To still a heart in absence wrung:
I tell each bead unto the end,
And there a Cross is hung.
O, memories that bless and burn!
O, barren gain and bitter loss!
I kiss each bead, and strive at last to learn
To kiss the Cross, sweetheart! to kiss the Cross.
[French]
Nos heures intimas, O ma chre,
Me semblent comme un fil perle;
Je fais en le repassant, ma priere,
C’est de ma vie le chapelet!
Pour calmer ma douleur amere,
Je prie, en les contant, pour toi;
Mais a la din de mon rosaire
Je trouve une croix!
O souvenirs plains de regrets!
O ben heur vain! O triste joie!
Je baise perle a perle mon chapelet,
Afin depprendre baiser la croix.
[German]
die Stunden, dir allein geweiht,
mir ist wie Perlen ihr Glanz,
Ichzahle sie gar oft in Einsamkeit: mein
Rosenkranz, mein rosenkrnz
Und jede Perle ein gebet fur’s herz,
das sich nur sehnen kann;
ich sag’ sie bis an’s ende her:
da hangt ein Kreuz daran!
Erinn’rung, freudund leidenvoll!
oder Gewinn des Herzens du!
Die Perlen kuss ichob ich kussen soll
das Kreuz dazu?
Liebchen! Das Kreuz dazu?
Recommended Citation
Rogers, Robert Cameron and Nevin, Etherlbert, "The Rosary" (1912). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 1218.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/1218
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
The Rosary
(Le Chapelet: Der Rosenkranz)
For Soprano or Tenor
Words by Robert Cameron Rogers
French version by Mme. C. Eschig.
German version by Carl Engel.
English, French, and German text set to music by Ethelbert Nevin.
Boston: The Boston Music Co.: G. Schirmer Jr. (1912)
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