by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
Love is all
Language: English
"Love is all Unsatisfied That cannot take the whole Body and soul"; And that is what Jane said. "Take the sour If you take me I can scoff and lour And scold for an hour." "That's certainly the case," said he. "Naked I lay, The grass my bed; Naked and hidden away, That black day"; And that is what Jane said. "What can be shown? What true love be? All could be known or shown If Time were but gone." "That's certainly the case," said he.
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- by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), "Crazy Jane on the Day of Judgment", appears in Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems, first published 1932 [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 Arthur Victor Berger (b. 1912), "Crazy Jane on the Day of Judgment", published 1950 [ voice, flute, clarinet, and violoncello ], from Three Poems of Yeats [sung text not yet checked]
- by Stanley Grill (b. 1953), "Crazy Jane on the Day of Judgement", 1999, copyright © 2000 [ soprano, flute, violin, viola, cello and piano ], from Crazy Jane Sings, no. 3, confirmed with an online score [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Patrick Arthur Sheldon Hadley (1899 - 1973), "Crazy Jane on the Day of Judgement", 1958 [ soprano and harp ], from Crazy Jane, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by David Lidov (b. 1941), "Crazy Jane on the Day of Judgment", 1967, rev. 1970 [ voice and piano ], from Crazy Jane's songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul Paviour (b. 1931), "Crazy Jane on the Day of Judgment", copyright © 1969 [ soprano and piano ], from Crazy Jane, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-01-03
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