by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
Beloved, may your sleep be sound
Language: English
Beloved, may your sleep be sound That have found it where you fed. What were all the world's alarms To mighty paris when he found Sleep upon a golden bed That first dawn in Helen's arms? Sleep, beloved, such a sleep As did that wild Tristram know When, the potion's work being done, Roe could run or doe could leap Under oak and beechen bough, Roe could leap or doe could run; Such a sleep and sound as fell Upon Eurotas' grassy bank When the holy bird, that there Accomplished his predestined will, From the limbs of Leda sank But not from her protecting care.
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Authorship:
- by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), "Lullaby", appears in The New Keepsake, first published 1931 [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 Jack Hamilton Beeson (b. 1921), "Lullaby" [ alto and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley, Sir (1903 - 1989), "Lullaby", 1943 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Eaton (1935 - 2015), "Song", from Songs for Ursula, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Michael Tippett (1905 - 1998), "Lullaby", published 1960 [ vocal sextet (SSAATTBB) or alto solo or counter-tenor solo, SSTTB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by James Walter Wilson (b. 1922), "Lullaby", op. 39 (Yeats songs) no. ? [ soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2008-09-18
Line count: 18
Word count: 105