Genre: Vocal
Mood: Tragic
Forces: Female voice, Piano
Length: 3 Minutes
Oh They Have Robbed (1999) – Anne Brontë poem for soprano & piano, 2’.
Oh, they have robbed me of the hope
My spirit held so dear;
They will not let me hear that voice
My soul delights to hear.
They will not let me see that face I so delight to see;
And they have taken all thy smiles,
And all thy love from me.
Well, let them seize on all they can;
One treasure still is mine,
A heart that loves to think on thee,
And feels the worth of thine.
Anne Brontë
First performance:
9 March 2002, Dilys Benson & Clifford Benson, Tonbridge, Kent.