by Sarojini Naidu (1879 - 1949)
Young leaves grow green on the banyan...
Language: English
Young leaves grow green on the banyan twigs, And red on the peepul tree, The honey-birds pipe to the budding figs, And honey-blooms call the bee. Poppies squander their fragile gold In the silvery aloe-brake, Coral and ivory lilies unfold Their delicate lives on the lake. Kingfishers ruffle the feathery sedge, And all the vivid air thrills With butterfly-wings in the wild-rose hedge, And the luminous blue of the hills. Kamala tinkles a lingering foot In the grove where temple-bells ring, And Krishna plays on his bamboo flute An idyll of love and spring.
L. Lehmann sets stanzas 1, 3-4
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Sarojini Naidu, The Bird of Time. Songs of Life, Death & the Spring, London: William Heinemann, 1912.
Text Authorship:
- by Sarojini Naidu (1879 - 1949), "Spring", appears in The Bird of Time - Songs of Life, Death, and the Spring, in 2. Songs of the Springtime [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 Liza Lehmann (1862 - 1918), "New leaves grow green", published 1907, stanzas 1,3-4 [ soprano, alto, tenor, orchestra ], from The Golden Threshold : An Indian Song-Garland , no. 14, London: Boosey & Co. [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2023-08-15
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