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All day I hear the noise of waters Making moan, Sad as the sea-bird is, when going Forth alone, He hears the [winds]1 cry to the waters' Monotone. The grey winds, the cold winds are blowing Where I go. I hear the noise of many waters Far below. All day, all night, I hear them [flowing]2 To and fro.
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Coulthard: "wind's"
2 Coulthard: "blowing"
Text Authorship:
- by James Joyce (1882 - 1941), no title, appears in Chamber Music, no. 35, first published 1908 [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 Creighton Allen (1900 - 1969), "Lay of Solitude", published 1929 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Luciano Berio (1925 - 2003), "Monotone", 1953, published 1954 [ female voice, clarinet, violoncello and harp ], from Chamber Music, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Lorne M. Betts (b. 1918), "All day I hear the noise of the water", 1951 [ high voice and piano ], from Six Songs to Poems of James Joyce [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis Calabro (1926 - 1991), "All day I hear the noise of waters", 1952 [ medium voice, piano ], from Three Songs for Medium Voice [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jean Coulthard (1908 - 2000), "All day I hear the noise of waters", alternate title: "Noise of Waters", 1946 [ medium voice and piano ], from Three Songs for Medium Voice and Piano, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by David Del Tredici (1937 - 2023), "Monotone", 1958-60, published c1974, from Four Songs on Texts of James Joyce, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joan Ferris , "All day I hear the noise of waters", published 1967 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Six Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul Fetler (b. 1920), "All day I hear", published 1957 [ SATB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ross Lee Finney (1906 - 1997), "All day I hear the noise of waters", 1952, published 1985, first performed 1975 [ voice and piano ], from Chamber Music, no. 35, Henmar Press [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Aynsley) Eugene Goossens, Sir (1893 - 1962), "All day I hear the noise of waters", op. 51 no. 5 (1929), published 1930 [ medium voice, piano ], from Chamber Music, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sergius Kagen (1909 - 1964), "All day I hear", published 1950 [ medium voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hugo Kauder (1888 - 1972), "All day I hear", published 1955 [ soprano, alto, tenor, string quartet ], from Ten Poems [sung text not yet checked]
- by Donald James Martino (1931 - 2005), "All day I hear the noise of waters", 1951, published 1978, from Separate Songs, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Vincent Persichetti (1915 - 1987), "Noise of Waters", op. 74 no. 3, published 1959 [ voice and piano ], from James Joyce Songs, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "The Noise Of Many Waters", op. 407 (1953) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gardner Read (1913 - 2005), "All day I hear", op. 48 no. 2, published 1950 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Songs for a Rainy Night, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Tibor Serly (1901 - 1978), "All day I hear the noise of waters", 1926 [ mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra ], from Four Songs from "Chamber Music" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Vally Weigl, née Pick (c1894 - 1982), "All day I hear the noise of waters", 1944-5, incomplete, MS at the Moldenhauer Archives, Harvard University [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- IRI Irish (Gaelic) [singable] (Gabriel Rosenstock) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: John Versmoren
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 61
An lá ar fad is clos dom uiscí ’Olagón, Uaigneach mar éan mara ag eitilt Mo bhrón, Ag éisteacht le géarghuth na gaoithe Och ochón. An ghaoth ghlas, an ghaoth fhuar ag séideadh I mo threo. Is clos dom uiscí fuara is iad Ag imeacht leo. An lá ar fad, ar feadh na hoíche Is go deo.
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Text Authorship:
- Singable translation from English to Irish (Gaelic) copyright © 2014 by Gabriel Rosenstock.
This author's work falls under the Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Creative Commons license.
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Based on:
- a text in English by James Joyce (1882 - 1941), no title, appears in Chamber Music, no. 35, first published 1908
This text was added to the website: 2014-12-11
Line count: 12
Word count: 57