by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882)
Your hands lie open in the long fresh...
Language: English
Your hands lie open in the long fresh grass, - The finger-points look through like rosy blooms: Your eyes smile peace. The pasture gleams and glooms 'Neath billowing [clouds]1 that scatter and amass. All round our nest, far as the eye can pass, Are golden kingcup fields with silver edge Where the cow-parsley skirts the hawthorn hedge. 'Tis visible silence, still as the hour glass. Deep in the sunsearched growths the dragon-fly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky: - So this winged hour is dropt to us from above. Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower, This close-companioned inarticulate hour When twofold silence was the song of love.
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Authorship
- by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882), "Silent noon", appears in Ballads and Sonnets, first published 1881 [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 George Frederick Boyle (1886 - 1948), "Your hands lie open", published 1939. [voice and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Henry Clough-Leighter (1874 - 1956), "Silent noon", published 1910 [high voice, piano, and string quartet], from The Day of Beauty [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Edward Toner Cone (b. 1917), "Silent noon", published 1964 [soprano and piano], in the collection New Vistas of Song [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Frederick Shepherd Converse (1871 - 1940), "Silent noon", published <<1940. [voice and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by John Henry Diercks (b. 1927), "Pastorale", 1957. [SSA chorus and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Ernest Bristow Farrar (1885 - 1918), "Silent noon", op. 10 no. 2, published 1911 [voice and piano], from Vagabond Songs, no. 2. [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Miriam Gideon (1906 - 1996), "Silent noon", 1983 [medium voice and piano (or flute, oboe, vibraphone, violin, and violoncello)], from Wing'd Hour, no. 2, New York, Peters [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Robert William Manton (1894 - 1967), "The wing'd hour", 1954. [medium voice and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Charles Wilfred Orr (1893 - 1976), "Silent noon", published 1922. [baritone and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Masters van Someren-Godfery (d. 1947), "Silent noon", published 1925. [voice and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958), "Silent noon", 1903, published 1904 [voice and piano], from The House of Life, no. 2. [ sung text checked 1 time]
- by Elinor Remick Warren (1900 - 1991), "Silent noon", published 1928. [voice and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Sílvia Pujalte Piñán) , "Migdia silenciós", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Tim Palmer) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Mercedes Vivas) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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