by Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)
When I set out for Lyonnesse
Language: English
When I set out for Lyonnesse, A hundred miles away, The rime was on the spray, And starlight lit my lonesomeness When I set out for Lyonnesse A hundred miles away. What would bechance at Lyonnesse While I should sojourn there No prophet durst declare, Nor did the wisest wizard guess What would bechance at Lyonnesse While I should sojourn there. When I came back from Lyonnesse With magic in my eyes, None managed to surmise What meant my godlike gloriousness, When I came back from Lyonnesse With magic in my eyes!
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- by Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928), "When I set out for Lyonnesse", appears in Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces, first published 1914 [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 Frederic Austin (1872 - 1952), "When I set out for Lyonnesse", published 1927 [ baritone and piano ], from Three Wessex Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rutland Boughton (1878 - 1960), "A Song of Lyonnesse", 1923, published 1924 [ voice and strings or piano ], from Three Hardy Songs, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by James Burton (b. 1974), "When I set out for Lyonnesse" [ voice and piano ], confirmed with a concert programme booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
- by John Woods Duke (1899 - 1984), "When I set out for Lyonnesse", published 1953 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gerald Finzi (1901 - 1956), "When I set out for Lyonnesse", op. 15 no. 2, published 1936 [ baritone, piano ], from Earth and Air and Rain, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889 - 1960), "Lyonnesse", published 1921 [ voice, piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Sidney Harrison (b. 1903), "When I set out for Lyonnesse", published 1929 [ voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949), "When I set out for Lyonnesse", op. 120 (Five songs) no. 2 (1938) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Irwin Heilner (b. 1908), "When I set out for Lyonnesse", 1966 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Christopher Kaye Le Fleming (b. 1908), "When I set out for Lyonnesse", published 1963 [ soprano, tenor, satb chorus, orchestra ], from Six Country Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Tom M. McCourt , "When I set out for Lyonnesse", published 1937 [ 2-part chorus of treble voices, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Katharine E. O'Brien , "When I set out for Lyonnesse", published 1947 [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Lyonnesse", op. 109 (1946) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Lyonnesse", op. 654 (1965) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles A. Speyer , "When I set out for Lyonnesse", published 1920 [ voice, piano ], from Six Selected Lyrics [sung text not yet checked]
- by Leslie Walters (1902 - 1998), "When I set out for Lyonnesse", published 1957 [sung text not yet checked]
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