by John Masefield (1878 - 1967)
I have seen dawn and sunset on moors and...
Language: English
I have seen dawn and sunset on moors and windy hills Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain; I have seen the Lady April bringing the daffodils, Bringing the springing grass and the soft warm April rain. I have heard the song of the blossoms and the old chant of the sea, And seen strange lands from under the arched white sails of ships; But the loveliest things of beauty God ever has shown to me Are her voice, and her hair, and her eyes, and the dear red curve of her lips.
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First published in Speaker, July 1903Text Authorship:
- by John Masefield (1878 - 1967), "Beauty", appears in Ballads and Poems, first published 1910 [author's text not yet checked 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 Edgar Barratt (b. 1877), "Beauty", published 1928 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ewart Andrew Bartley (b. 1909), "Beauty", 1949 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Cecil Cope , "Beauty", published 1966 [ TTBB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Malcolm Gordon Davidson (1891 - 1949), "Beauty", published 1921 [ voice and piano or strings ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Norman Gilbert (b. 1912), "Beauty", published 1951 [ SSA chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Hageman (1881 - 1966), "Beauty", published <<1940 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Muriel Emily Herbert (1897 - 1984), "Beauty", published 1923 [ voice and piano ], London, Augener [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Walter Kramer (1890 - 1969), "I have seen dawn", op. 48 no. 1 (1922) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Samuel R. Lewis , "Beauty", published <<1940 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hermann Frederic Löhr (1872 - 1943), "Beauty", published 1922 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frederick John Easthope Martin (1882 - 1925), "Beauty", published 1919 [ medium voice and piano ], from Five Poems by John Masefield [sung text not yet checked]
- by Beatrice Posaminick , "Beauty", published <<1940 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Elinor Remick Warren (1900 - 1991), "I have seen dawn", published <<1940 [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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