by James Stephens (1882 - 1950)
The wind stood up and gave a shout
Language: English
The wind stood up and gave a shout. He whistled on his fingers and Kicked the withered leaves about And thumped the branches with his hand And said that he'd kill and kill, And so he will and so he will.
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Text Authorship:
- by James Stephens (1882 - 1950), "Stephen's Green", appears in The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin, first published 1915 [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 Samuel Hans Adler (b. 1928), "The wind", published 1963 [ high voice and piano ], from Four Poems of James Stephens, no. 1, Oxford University Press [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edward Toner Cone (b. 1917), "The wind" [ TTBB chorus a cappella ], from Three Miniatures [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mary Anderson Lucas (1882 - 1952), "The wind", published 1931 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2008-01-16
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Word count: 41