by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892)
Birds' love and birds' song
Language: English
Birds' love and birds' song. Flying here and there,- Birds' song and birds' love, And you with gold for hair! Birds' song and birds' love, Passing with the weather, Men's song and men's love To love once and for ever. Men's love and birds' love, And women's love and men's! And you my wren with crown of gold, You my Queen of the wrens! You the Queen of the wrens! We'll be birds of a feather; I'll be King of the Queen of the wrens, And all in a nest together!
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Text Authorship:
- by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892), no title, appears in The Windows, or The Loves of the Wrens, no. 5, first published 1867, rev. 1871 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (1852 - 1924), "Spring", op. 112 (Four songs) no. 1, published 1908 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Sullivan, Sir (1842 - 1900), "Spring", published 1871 [ voice and piano ], from The Window, or The Songs of the Wrens, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sidney Thomson , "Spring", published 1893 [ voice and piano ], from The Window or the Song of the Wrens [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958), "Spring", 1896 [ voice and piano ], from Two Vocal Valses from The Window, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Henry Walthew (1872 - 1951), "Birds' love and birds' song", published 1898 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-03-21
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Word count: 91