Round us the wild creatures, overhead the trees, Underfoot the moss-tracks, life and love with these ! I to wear a fawn-skin, thou to dress in flowers : All the long lone Summer-day, that greenwood life of ours ! Rich-pavilioned, rather, still the world without, Inside gold-roofed silk-walled silence round about ! Queen it thou on purple, I, at watch and ward Couched beneath the columns, gaze, thy slave, love's guard ! So, for us no world ? Let throngs press thee to me ! Up and down amid men, heart by heart fare we ! Welcome squalid vesture, harsh voice, hateful face ! God is soul, souls I and thou : with souls should souls have place.
Three songs
Song Cycle by Fritz Krull
?. Round us the wild creatures [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Text Authorship:
- by Robert Browning (1812 - 1889), "The eagle", appears in Ferishtah's Fancies, no. 1, first published 1884
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]?. Such a starved bank of moss [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Such a starved bank of moss Till, that May-morn, Blue ran the flash across: Violets were born! Sky -- what a scowl of cloud Till, near and far, Ray on ray split the shroud: Splendid, a star! World -- how it walled about Life with disgrace, Till God's own smile came out: That was thy face!
Text Authorship:
- by Robert Browning (1812 - 1889), "Apparitions", appears in The Two Poets of Croisic, Prologue, first published 1878
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]?. I go to prove my soul [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
I go to prove my soul! I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive! what time, what circuit first, I ask not: but unless God send his hail Or blinding fireballs, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive: He guides me and the bird. In his good time!
Text Authorship:
- by Robert Browning (1812 - 1889), no title, appears in Paracelsus, Part I, Scene 2, first published 1835, rev. 1863
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