by Sarojini Naidu (1879 - 1949)
Bright shower of lambent butterflies
Language: English
Bright shower of lambent butterflies, Soft cloud of murmuring bees, O fragile storm of sighing leaves Adrift upon the breeze! Wild birds with eager wings outspread To seek an alien sky, Sweet comrades of a lyric spring. My little songs, good-bye!
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Sarojini Naidu, The Bird of Time: Songs of Life, Death & the Spring, London: William Heinemann, 1912, page 101.
Text Authorship:
- by Sarojini Naidu (1879 - 1949), "Farewell", appears in The Bird of Time - Songs of Life, Death, and the Spring, in 4. Songs of Life, London: William Heinemann, first published 1912 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Ernest Charles (1895 - 1984), "L'Envoi", published 1939 [ voice and piano ], New York: G. Schirmer [sung text checked 1 time]
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