by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
All the words that I gather
Language: English
All the words that I gather And all the words that I write Must spread out their wings untiring And never rest in their flight, Till they come where your sad, sad heart is, And sing to you in the night, Beyond where the waters are moving, Storm-darkened or starry bright.
About the headline (FAQ)
View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Irish Fairy Tales, edited with an introduction by W. B. Yeats, London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1892, in the epigraph.
Text Authorship:
- by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), "Where my books go", appears in Irish Fairy Tales, first published 1892 [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 Louis Campbell-Tipton (1877 - 1921), "All the words that I gather", <<1921. [ sung text not verified ]
- by Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (1890 - 1937), "All the words that I utter", subtitle: "Song in the night", 1925. [voice and piano] [ sung text not verified ]
- by Ernest Whyte (1858 - 1922), "The destiny of my words", op. 29 no. 3. [ sung text verified 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- IRI Irish (Gaelic) [singable] (Gabriel Rosenstock) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , title 1: "Où vont mes livres", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 52