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Trois Poèmes
Song Cycle by Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974)
1. Chanson de Rossetti
Language: English
2. A Birthday  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a watered shoot; My heart is like an apple tree Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a [purple]1 sea; My heart is gladder than all these Because my love is come to me. Raise me a dais of [silk and down]2; Hang it with vair and purple dyes; Carve it in doves and pomegranates, And peacocks with a hundred eyes; Work it in gold and silver grapes, In leaves and [silver]3 fleur-de-lys; Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love, is come to me.
Authorship:
- by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), "A birthday"
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Aldridge, Hall: "halcyon"
2 Parry: "purple and gold"
3 Aldridge: "tiny"
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3. The roaring frost  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
A flock of winds came winging from the North, Strong birds with fighting pinions driving forth With a resounding call: -- Where will they close their wings and cease their cries -- Between what warming seas and conquering skies -- And fold, and fall?
Authorship:
- by Alice Christina Meynell (1847 - 1922), "The roaring frost", appears in Later Poems, first published 1902
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]Total word count: 149