by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
A song of healing See original
Language: English
Love, from its awful throne of patient power
In the wise heart, from the last giddy hour
Of dread endurance, from the slippery, steep,
And narrow verge of crag-like agony, springs
And folds over the world its healing wings.
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Composition:
- Set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958), "A song of healing", stanza 1 [ unison chorus and orchestra (or piano) ], from Six choral songs to be sung in time of war, no. 3
Text Authorship:
- by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822), no title, appears in Prometheus Unbound, excerpt
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Research team for this page: Ahmed E. Ismail , Harry Joelson
This text was added to the website: 2005-12-31
Line count: 22
Word count: 168