by Arthur Symons (1865 - 1945)
The fisher's widow
Language: English
The boats go out and the boats come in Under the wintry sky. And the rain and the foam are white in the wind And all the gulls cry. She sees the sea when the wind is wild Swept by the windy rain And her heart's a-weary of sea and land As the long days wane. She sees the torn sails fly in the foam Broad on the sky line gray. And the boats go out and the boats come in But there's one away.
Text Authorship:
- by Arthur Symons (1865 - 1945), "The fisher's widow", appears in Days and Nights, first published 1889 [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 Adolphe Coerne (1870 - 1922), "The fisher's widow", <<1922. [text not verified]
- by Clara Edwards (1887 - 1974), "The fisher's widow", published <<1940. [text not verified]
- by Paul McIntyre , "The fisher's widow" [medium voice and piano], from Three Poems of Arthur Symonds [sic] [text not verified]
- by Henry Tye , "The fisher's widow", published 1966. [unison chorus] [text not verified]
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This text was added to the website: 2008-07-07
Line count: 12
Word count: 85