See yon opening flower Spreads its fragrance to the blast; It fades within an hour, Its decay is pale-is fast. Paler is yon maiden; Faster is her heart's decay; Deep with sorrow laden, She sinks in death away.
Four Short Songs
Song Cycle by Evelyn Hope Squire (1878 - 1936)
1. See, you opening flower [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Text Authorship:
- by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822), "Song from the wandering Jew"
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Confirmed with Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley...together with His Prefaces and Notes, His Poetical Translations and Fragments and an Appendix of Juvenilia, Band 2, Reeves, 1892, p.391
Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
2. Where art thou, beloved Tomorrow [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Where art thou, beloved To-morrow? When young and old, and strong and weak, Rich and poor, through joy and sorrow, Thy sweet smiles we ever seek, -- In thy place--ah! well-a-day! We find the thing we fled--To-day.
Text Authorship:
- by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822), "To-morrow", first published 1824
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Zítra", Prague, J. Otto, first published 1901
3. Rough wind that moanest loud [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Rough wind that moanest loud Grief too sad for song; Wild wind, when sullen cloud Knells all [the]1 night long; Sad storm whose tears are vain, Bare woods, whose branches strain, Deep caves and dreary main, -- Wail, for the world's wrong!
Text Authorship:
- by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822), "A Dirge", written 1822, first published 1824
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Nářek", Prague, J. Otto, first published 1901
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Published by Mrs. Shelley in Posthumous Poems, 1824.
1 omitted by Ives.Researcher for this page: Ted Perry
4. Misery O Misery [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Her voice did quiver as we parted,
Yet knew I not that heart was broken
From which it came, and I departed
Heeding not the words then spoken.
Misery — O Misery,
This world is all too wide for thee.
Text Authorship:
- by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822), "On Fanny Godwin"
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Confirmed with The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oxford University Press, 1914.
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
Total word count: 156