by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892)
The sleeping palace See original
Language: English
The varying year with blade and sheaf Clothes and reclothes the happy plains, Here rests the sap within the leaf, Here stays the blood along the veins. ... ... Here stoops the banner on the tower, On the hall-hearths the festal fires, The peacock in his laurel bower, The parrot in his gilded wires. Roof-haunting martins warm their eggs: In these, in those the life is stay'd. The mantles from the golden pegs Droop sleepily: no sound is made, ... ...
Composition:
- Set to music by Ned Rorem (1923 - 2022), "The sleeping palace", published 1969, stanzas 1-3 [ medium-high voice and piano ], from Four Poems of Tennyson
Text Authorship:
- by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892), "The sleeping palace", appears in Poems, in The Day-Dream, no. 2, Volume II, first published 1842
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Line count: 56
Word count: 354