by Arthur Symons (1865 - 1945)
The crying of water
Language: English
O Water, voice of my heart, Crying in the sand, All night long crying with mournful cry. As I lie and listen, and cannot understand The voice of my heart in my side, or the voice of the sea. O water, water, crying for rest, Is it I? is it I? All night long The water is crying to me.
Text Authorship:
- by Arthur Symons (1865 - 1945), "The crying of water", appears in Poems of Arthur Symons, Volume 2, in The Loom of Dreams, first published 1914 [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 Louis Campbell-Tipton (1877 - 1921), "The crying of water", published 1907, from Four Sea Lyrics, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Paul McIntyre , "The crying of water" [ medium voice and piano ], from Three Poems of Arthur Symonds [sic] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "The Crying Of Water", op. 157 (1947) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2003-12-03
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Word count: 60