The sea is full of [wandering]1 foam, The sky of driving cloud; My restless thoughts among them roam . . . The night is dark and loud. Where are the hours that came to me So beautiful and bright? A wild wind shakes the wilder sea . . . O, dark and loud's the night!
Three Songs , opus 11
by Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867 - 1944)
1. Dark is the night [sung text checked 1 time]
Language: English
Text Authorship:
- by William Ernest Henley (1849 - 1903), appears in A Book of Verses, first published 1888
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Beach: "wand'ring"
2. The western wind [sung text checked 1 time]
Language: English
Bring her again, O western wind, Over the western sea: Gentle and good and fair and kind, Bring her again to me! Not that her fancy holds me dear, Not that a hope may be: Only that I may know her near, Wind of the western sea.
Text Authorship:
- by William Ernest Henley (1849 - 1903), no title, appears in A Book of Verses, first published 1888
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- CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
3. The blackbird [sung text checked 1 time]
Language: English
The nightingale has a lyre of gold, The lark's is a clarion call, And the blackbird plays but a boxwood flute, But I love him best of all. For his song is all of the joy of life, And we in the [mad]1, spring weather, We two have listened till he [sang]2 Our hearts and lips together.
Text Authorship:
- by William Ernest Henley (1849 - 1903), no title, appears in A Book of Verses, first published 1888
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Parker: "glad"
2 Parker: "sung"