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by Helen Taylor (1876 - 1943)

April's hour
Language: English 
There’s a fairy sleeping in every folded flower,
And a rainbow peeping through every silver shower,
And light leaves shaking and golden blossoms breaking,
The world is waking to April’s magic hour.

There are blossoms falling in every laughing lane,
And cuckoos calling through veils of quiv’ring rain;
The young corn’s springing and all the birds are singing,
And love is ringing in every heart again!

Text Authorship:

  • by Helen Taylor (1876 - 1943) [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 Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889 - 1960), "April's hour", published 1922 [voice and piano], from Gray and gold, no. 5. [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

Researcher for this page: Mike Pearson

This text was added to the website: 2015-03-10
Line count: 8
Word count: 66

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