When gently blows the South Wind First through the Northern Wood, With eagerness he goeth where long a tree has stood. He lifts the leafy cov'ring that lies close at its base, and there with sweetest welcome, looks up his old love's face. Beneath the snow she waits him and keeps her leave's brave dress, Her fair blossom opens at his first caress. Each year the flower greets him, For him, for him alone, her heart with love's beauty, through her brief day has shone.
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Text Authorship:
- Singable translation by Harmony Twitchell (1876 - 1969) [an adaptation] [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Lyrisches Intermezzo, no. 10
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 Edward Ives (1874 - 1954), "The South Wind", 1899, published 1922, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
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- Also set in Basque (Euskara), a translation by Arregui ; composed by Pablo Sorozábal.
- Also set in English, a translation by James Thomson (1834 - 1882) , "Die Lotosblume ängstigt", appears in Poems Selected from Heinrich Heine, ed. by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker, London: Walter Scott, Limited, page 59, first published 1887 ; composed by John Joseph Becker.
- Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Bonfield Akers.
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- Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by J. J. Mewburn Levien.
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- Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Walter P. Weekes.
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- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Mikhail Mikhailovich Ippolitov-Ivanov.
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Anton Stepanovich Arensky.
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Sergey Mikhailovich Lyapunov.
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- Also set in Spanish (Español), a translation by Pablo Sorozábal (1897 - 1988) ; composed by Pablo Sorozábal.
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- Also set in Swedish (Svenska), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by John [Jacques] Jacobsson.
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