by Robert Seymour Bridges (1844 - 1930)
The upper skies are palest blue
Language: English
The upper skies are palest blue Mottled with pearl and fretted snow: With tattered fleece of inky hue Close overhead the stormclouds go. Their shadows fly along the hill And o'er the crest mount one by one: The whitened planking of the mill Is now in shade and now in sun.
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Text Authorship:
- by Robert Seymour Bridges (1844 - 1930), no title, appears in The Shorter Poems of Robert Bridges, first published 1890 [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 Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949), "The upper skies are palest blue", 1935 [women's chorus a cappella], from Five Part-Songs for Women's Choir, Set II [text not verified]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-02-04
Line count: 8
Word count: 52