by Walter Herries Pollock (1850 - 1926)
Boat song
Language: English
Boat, little boat, A breeze on thy white sails shall soon light, Float, lightly float, Far away into the moonlight: Winging thy flight, From the noise and the jar of the world. In a dream of delight Shall thy glistening sails be unfurled: Float far away, From the glare of the sun's blinding light, From the heat of the day, To the cool of the slumbering night: Float through the bay, Though the soft ripples' infinite motion; Bear me away, To the tireless waves of the ocean: Float to the deep, To the ocean-bird's long-rolling pillows, Ah ! Let me sleep On a soft-tossing cradle of billows.
Confirmed with Walter Herries Pollock, Songs and Rhymes: English and French, London: Remington & Co., 1882, pages 62-63.
Authorship:
- by Walter Herries Pollock (1850 - 1926), "Boat song", appears in Songs and Rhymes: English and French [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 Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (1852 - 1924), "Boat song", op. 19 (Six songs) no. 5 (1882), published 1884 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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