Calm is the morn | Calm is the morn without a sound

Calm is the morn without a sound

Language: English

Our translations: CHI

Calm is the morn without a sound,
Calm as to suit a calmer grief,
And only thro' the faded leaf
The chestnut pattering to the ground:

Calm and deep peace on this high wold
And on these dews that drench the furze,
And all the silvery gossamers
That twinkle into green and gold:

Calm and still light on yon great plain
That sweeps with all its autumn bowers,
And crowded farms and lessening towers,
To mingle with the bounding main:

Calm and deep peace in this wide air,
These leaves that redden to the fall;
And in my heart, if calm at all,
If any calm, a calm despair:

Calm on the seas, and silver sleep,
And waves that sway themselves in rest,
And dead calm in that noble breast
Which heaves but in the heaving deep.

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Text Authorship:

by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892), no title, appears in In Memoriam A. H. H. obiit MDCCCXXXIII, no. 11, first published 1850 [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 John Blockley (1800 - 1882), "Calm is the morn", <<1892 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Jonathan Dove (b. 1959), "Calm is the morn", 2017 [ tenor and piano ], from Under Alter'd Skies, no. 2, confirmed with a concert programme booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
by Henry Ernest Geehl (1881 - 1957?), "Calm is the morn", published 1921 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Gustav Holst (1874 - 1934), "Calm is the morn", op. 16 no. 1 (1903), first performed 1904 [ soprano and piano ], from Six Songs, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
by William Brocklesby Wordsworth (1908 - 1988), "Autumn", 1971, first performed 1971 [ ATBB chorus and piano ], from Four Seasonal Songs [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

Researcher for this page: Geoffrey Wieting

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 20
Word count: 137