Midsummer lullaby

Silver clouds are lightly sailing
Through the drowsy, trembling air,
And the golden summer sunshine
Casts a glory everywhere.

Softly sob and sigh the billows
As they dream in shadows sweet,
And the swaying reeds and rushes
Kiss the mirror at their feet.

Submitted by Emily Ezust [Administrator]

Authorship

• by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [an adaptation] [ author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

• a text in German (Deutsch) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), "Mai" FRE
• This text was set to music by the following composer(s): Hans Gál, Adolph Bernhard Marx, Arnold Mendelssohn, Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel. Go to the text.

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

• by Edward Alexander MacDowell (1860 - 1908), "Midsummer lullaby", op. 47 no. 2, published 1893, from Eight Love Songs, no. 2. [
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Settings in other languages or adaptations:

• Also set in German (Deutsch), original text by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) , title 1: "Mai" ENG FRE by Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Arnold Mendelssohn, Adolph Bernhard Marx, Hans Gál.
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Text added to the website: 2003-10-19.
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:01:56
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