by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892)
Go not, happy day
Language: English
Go not, happy day, From the shining fields, Go not, happy day. Till the maiden yields. Rosy is the West, Rosy is the South, Roses are her cheeks, And a rose her mouth. When the happy Yes Falters from her lips, Pass and blush the news O'er the blowing ships. Over blowing seas, Over seas at rest, Pass the happy news, Blush it thro' the West; Till the red man dance By his red cedar tree, And the red man's babe Leap, beyond the sea. Blush from West to East, Blush from East to West, Till the West is East, Blush it thro' the West. Rosy is the West, Rosy is the South, Roses are her cheeks. And a rose her mouth.
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Confirmed with Maud, and Other Poems. By Alfred Tennyson, D.C.L., Poet Laureate. A New Edition, London: Edward Moxon & Co., Dover Street, 1859.
Text Authorship:
- by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892), appears in Maud, Part 1, no. 17 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Frank Bridge (1879 - 1941), "Go not, happy day", 1903, published 1905 [ voice and piano or orchestra ], from Two Songs, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Winifred May Bury (1897 - 1977), "Go not, happy day", copyright © 1933 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frederick Delius (1862 - 1934), "Go not, happy day", 1891 [ tenor and orchestra ], from Maud, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Franz (Ferenc) Liszt (1811 - 1886), "Go not, happy day", S. 335 (1879), published 1880 [ voice and piano ], also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Arthur Somervell, Sir (1863 - 1937), "Go not, happy day", published 1898 [ voice and piano ], from Cycle of Songs from Tennyson's Maud, no. 7, London: Boosey & Hawkes [sung text not yet checked]
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by L. Kirschbaum ; composed by Franz Liszt.
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Word count: 125