by Mary Coleridge (1861 - 1907)
The Valley and the Hill See base text
Language: English
O the high valley, the little low hill,
And the cornfield over the sea,
The wind that rages and then lies still,
And the clouds that rest and flee!
O the grey island in the rainbow haze,
And the long thin spits of land,
The roughening pastures and the stony ways,
And the golden flash of the sand!
...
O the brown bracken, the black-berry bough,
The scent of the gorse in the air!
I shall love them ever as I love them now,
I shall weary in Heaven to be there!
Composition:
- Set to music by Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953), "The Valley and the Hill", op. 18 (Six songs) no. 6, published 1916, stanzas 1-2,4 [ voice and piano ], from Two September Songs, no. 2
Text Authorship:
- by Mary Coleridge (1861 - 1907), no title, appears in Poems, in Chillingham, no. 2, first published 1907
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Researcher for this page: Ted Perry
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 119