Singing the Songs of Rabindranath Tagore: Richard Hageman's Settings from The Gardener

[...]Hageman developed a musical lexicon of associations to the text early on, suggesting a maturity which is unusual for any composer just setting out. According to Kramer, "Do Not Go, My Love" in particular "was heard in a number of New York recitals [in the winter of 1916]. According to Hageman, during "sleepless nights," he recollected the "very beautiful words" of Tagore's "Do Not Go, My Love" and decided to set it to music. "May Night" The love-sick narrator is trying to make sense of the emotional turmoil he is experiencing and compares himself to an in-season musk deer or a moschid that is "mad with his own perfume.