The Poet's Song | The rain had fallen, the Poet arose

The rain had fallen, the Poet arose

Language: English

The rain had fallen, the Poet arose,
  He passed by the town, and out of the street,
A light wind blew from the gates of the sun,
  And waves of shadow went over the wheat,
And he set him down in a lonely place,
  And chanted a melody loud and sweet,
That made the wild-swan pause in her cloud,
  And the lark drop down at his feet.

The swallow stopt as he hunted the bee,
  The snake slipt under the spray,
The hawk stood with the down on his beak,
  And stared, with his foot on the prey,
And the nightingale thought, "I have sung many songs,
  But never a one so gay,
For he sings of what the world will be
  When the years have died away."

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• C. Parry

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Text Authorship:

by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892), "The Poet's Song", appears in Poems, Volume II, first published 1842 [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 Edith A. Bracken , "The poet's song", published 1880 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by A. H. Cox , "The poet's song", published 1870 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Dotie Davies (1859 - 1938), as Hope Temple, "The poet's song", published 1882 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Norman Dello Joio (1913 - 2008), "The poet's song", published 1974 [ SATB chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Thomas Frederick Dunhill (1877 - 1946), "The poet's song", published c1937 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889 - 1960), "The poet's song", published 1938 [ SSA chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by C. Oliphant (Miss) , "The rain has fallen", published 1857 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (1848 - 1918), "The Poet's Song", op. 12 no. 1 (c1873), published 1873 [ voice and piano ], from Three Songs, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Sidney Thomson , "The poet's song", published 1893 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Seven songs [sung text not yet checked]
by Sidney Peine Waddington (1869 - 1953), "The poet's song", published 1909 [ SA chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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