by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
The Road to Avrillé
Language: English
April again in Avrillé, And the brown lark in air. And you and I a world apart, That walked together there. The cuckoo spoke from out of the wood, The lark from out the sky. Embraced upon the highway stood Love-sick you and I. The rosy peasant left his bees, The carrier slowed his cart, To shout us blithe obscenities, And bless us from the heart.
Text Authorship:
- by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), "The Road to Avrillé", appears in The Buck in the Snow, first published 1928 [author's text not yet checked 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 Timothy Hoekman , "The Road to Avrillé", 2009, published 2011 [ voice and piano ], from Five Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sven Lekberg (1899 - 1984), "The Road to Avrillé", published 1971 [ high voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Pearson Thomas (b. 1957), "The Road to Avrillé" [ soprano and piano ], from Songs To Poems Of Edna St. Vincent Millay, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2020-08-27
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Word count: 66