All that's past
Language: English
Very old are the woods;
And the buds that break
Out of the brier's boughs,
When March winds wake,
So old with their beauty are--
Oh, no man knows
Through what wild centuries
Roves back the rose.
Very old are the brooks;
And the rills that rise
Where snow sleeps cold beneath
The azure skies
Sing such a history
Of come and gone,
Their every drop is as wise
As Solomon.
Very old are we men;
Our dreams are tales
Told in dim Eden
By Eve's nightingales;
We wake and whisper awhile,
But, the day gone by,
Silence and sleep like fields
Of amaranth lie.
First published in Thrush, Jan. 1910
Submitted by Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Authorship
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
- by Gary Bachlund , "All that's past", 1986. [medium voice and piano] [
text verified 1 time ]
- by Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley, Sir (1903 - 1989), "All that's past", published 1966 [high voice and guitar], from Songs of the Half-Light [
text not verified ]
- by Frederic Bontoft , "All that's past", published 1950. [voice and piano] [
text not verified ]
- by Dilys Elwyn-Edwards, née Roberts (b. 1918), "All that's past", published 1956. [satb chorus a cappella] [
text not verified ]
- by Gaynor D. Garrett , "All that's past", 1954 [soprano or tenor and piano], from Three Poems of Walter de la Mare [
text not verified ]
- by Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (1890 - 1937), "All that's past" [voice and piano] [
text not verified ]
- by Antony Roper , "All that's past", published 1963. [chorus of 2 equal voices and piano] [
text not verified ]
Text added to the website: 2007-05-11.
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:02:21
Line count: 24
Word count: 105
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