by Eleanor Jane Hopper (1871 - 1906), as Nora Hopper

Language: English 
The Spring is at the door: 
She bears a golden store, 
Her maund with yellow daffodils runneth o'er.

Her rosy feet are bare, 
The wind is in her hair, 
And O her eyes are April eyes, very fair.

After her footsteps follow
The mullein and the mallow;
She scatters golden powder on the sallow.

She brings the crocus white, 
And golden aconite: 
She brings desire and doubting and delight.

Composition:

    Set to music by Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953), "Spring is at the door", op. 18 (Six songs) no. 4 (1914), published 1914 [ voice and piano ]

Text Authorship:

  • by Eleanor Jane Hopper (1871 - 1906), as Nora Hopper, "Spring song", from Songs of the morning, pp. 56-57, Grant Richards, London, first published 1900

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