Seven sweet notes In the moonlight pale Warbled a leaf-hidden Nightingale: And Echo in hiding By an old green wall Under the willows Sighed back them all.
Bells and Grass -- 5 songs for soprano and oboe
Song Cycle by Juliana Hall (b. 1958)
1. Echo
Language: English
Text Authorship:
- by Walter De la Mare (1873 - 1956), "Echo", appears in Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes, first published 1941
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Researcher for this page: David Sims [Guest Editor]2. Gone
Language: English
Bright sun, hot sun, oh, to be Where beats on the restless sea! To hear the sirens of the deep Chaunting old Ocean’s floods to sleep! And shadowed wave to sunlit wave Call from the music-haunted cave! There, with still eyes, their watch they keep, While, at horizon mark, a ship, With cloudlike sails glides slowly on, Smalls, vanishes, is gone.
Text Authorship:
- by Walter De la Mare (1873 - 1956), "Gone"
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Researcher for this page: David Sims [Guest Editor]3. Why?
Language: English
Ever, ever Stir and shiver The reeds and rushes By the river: Ever, ever, As if in dream, The lone moon’s silver Sleeks the stream. What old sorrow, What lost love, Moon, reeds, rushes, Dream you of?
Text Authorship:
- by Walter De la Mare (1873 - 1956), "Why?", appears in Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes, first published 1941
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Researcher for this page: David Sims [Guest Editor]4. Coals
Language: English
In drowsy fit I hear the flames Syllabling o’er Their ancient names: The coals — a glory Of gold — blaze on, Drenched with the suns Of centuries gone; While, at the window, This rainy day In darkening twilight Dies away.
Text Authorship:
- by Walter De la Mare (1873 - 1956), "Coals", appears in Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes, first published 1941
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Researcher for this page: David Sims [Guest Editor]5. Rain
Language: English
I woke in the swimming dark And heard, now sweet, now shrill, The voice of the rain-water Cold and still, Endlessly sing; now faint, In the distance borne away; Now in the air float near, But nowhere stay; Singing I know not what, Echoing on and on; Following me in sleep, Till night was gone.
Text Authorship:
- by Walter De la Mare (1873 - 1956), "Rain", appears in Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes, first published 1941
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