The rain had fallen, the Poet arose (Tennyson, set by (Edith A. Bracken, A. H. Cox, Dotie Davies, Mrs. André Charles Prosper Messager, as Hope Temple, Norman Dello Joio, Thomas Frederick Dunhill, Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, C. Oliphant , Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir, Sidney Thomson, Sidney Peine Waddington)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

The rain had fallen, the Poet arose

Language: English

The rain had fallen, the Poet arose,
He pass'd by the town and out of the street,
A light wind blew from the gates of the sun,
And waves of the shadow went over the wheat,
And he sat him down in a lonely place,
And chanted a melody loud and sweet,
That made the wild swan pause on her cloud,
And the lark drop down at his feet.

The swallow stopt as he hunted the bee,
The snake slipt under the spray,
The wild hawk stood with the down on his beak,
And stared with his foot on the prey,
And the nightingale thought, "I have sung many songs,
But never one so gay,
For he sings of what the world will be
When the years have died away."

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Authorship

by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892), "The poet's song", appears in Poems, Volume II, first published 1842 [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 Edith A. Bracken , "The poet's song", published 1880. [voice and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by A. H. Cox , "The poet's song", published 1870. [voice and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Dotie Davies, Mrs. André Charles Prosper Messager (1859 - 1938), as Hope Temple, "The poet's song", published 1882. [voice and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Norman Dello Joio (1913 - 2008), "The poet's song", published 1974. [SATB chorus and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Thomas Frederick Dunhill (1877 - 1946), "The poet's song", published c1937. [unison chorus and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889 - 1960), "The poet's song", published 1938. [SSA chorus and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by C. Oliphant (Miss) , "The rain has fallen", published 1857. [voice and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (1848 - 1918), "The poet's song", published 1880 [voice and piano], in Songs from the published writings of Alfred Tennyson [ sung text checked 1 time]
by Sidney Thomson , "The poet's song", published 1893 [mezzo-soprano and piano], from Seven songs [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Sidney Peine Waddington (1869 - 1953), "The poet's song", published 1909. [SA chorus and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]

Researcher for this text: Ted Perry

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Word count: 130