[ ... ]
Yet half a beast is the great god Pan,
To laugh as he sits by the river,
Making a poet out of a man:
The true gods sigh for the cost and pain --
For the reed which grows nevermore again
As a reed with the reeds of the river.
Three myths for coloratura soprano
Song Cycle by Rick Sowash (b. 1950)
1. Pan  [sung text checked 1 time]
Authorship:
- by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861), "A musical instrument"
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First published in Cornhill Magazine, July 1860Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
2. Sphere music  [sung text checked 1 time]
[ ... ] Steep is the mountain, but you, you will help me to overcome it, And stand with my head in the zenith, and roll my voice from the summit, Sounding for ever and ever thro’ Earth and her listening nations, And mixt with the great sphere-music of stars and of constellations. [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892), "Parnassus", appears in Demeter and Other Poems, first published 1889
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Confirmed with Alfred Tennyson, Demeter, and Other Poems, 1889
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3. Orpheus  [sung text checked 1 time]
In the Kingdom of Thrace there lived a singer and Orpheus [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Anne Terry White (1896 - 1980), appears in Myths and Legends, copyright ©
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