A widow bird sate mourning for her love Upon a wintry bough, The frozen wind crept on above; The freezing stream below. There was no leaf upon the forest bare, No [flower]1 upon the ground And little motion in the air, Except the mill-wheel's sound.
Through the Year. A Cantata for Ladies' Voices
Song Cycle by Arthur Henry Behrend (1853 - 1935)
8. A widow bird  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Text Authorship:
- by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822), no title, appears in Charles the First
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Píseň"
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Un passero solitario il suo amore lamenta", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Some settings use the modernized spelling "sat" instead of "sate"
1 Treharne: "flowers".
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Total word count: 45