by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
Spring Song
Language: English
The blasts of Autumn drive the winged seeds Over the earth, — next come the snows, and rain, And frosts, and storms, which dreary Winter leads Out of his Scythian cave, a savage train; Behold! Spring sweeps over the world again, Shedding soft dews from her ethereal wings; Flowers on the mountains, fruits over the plain, And music on the waves and woods she flings, And love on all that lives, and calm on lifeless things.
E. Dickson sets lines 5-9
Confirmed with The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oxford Edition, ed. by Thomas Hutchinson, 1914.
Text Authorship:
- by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822), appears in The Revolt of Islam, Canto 9, part 21 [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 Ellen Dickson (1819 - 1878), as Dolores, "Spring Song", published 1862, lines 5-9 [ voice and piano ], London [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2023-07-07
Line count: 9
Word count: 76