by William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
A slumber did my spirit seal
Language: English
A slumber did my spirit seal; I had no human fears: She seem'd a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force; She neither hears nor sees; Roll'd round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees.
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Authorship:
- by William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850), "Lucy V", written 1802, appears in Lyrical Ballads [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 Nigel Dodd , "Lucy V" [ bass or baritone, piano ], from The Lucy Poems: A Song Cycle for Bass-Baritone and Piano, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Linton Gardner (1917 - 2011), "A slumber did my spirit seal", op. 242 no. 7 (2000) [ soprano and piano ], from Recollections of Love, no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949), "A slumber did my spirit seal", 1914 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2006-01-27
Line count: 8
Word count: 48