by James Joyce (1882 - 1941)
I heard their young hearts crying
Language: English
I heard their young hearts crying Loveward above the glancing oar And heard the prairie grasses sighing: No more, return no more! O hearts, O sighing grasses, Vainly your loveblown bannerets mourn! No more will the wild wind that passes Return, no more return.
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First published in the Saturday Review, September 1913Authorship:
- by James Joyce (1882 - 1941), "Watching the needleboats at San Sabba", written 1912, appears in Pomes Penyeach, no. 2 [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 Stanley Richard Bate (1913 - 1959), "Watching the needleboats at San Saba", published 1951 [low voice and piano], from Five Songs [text not verified]
- by Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir (1883 - 1953), "Watching the needleboats at San Saba", published 1933 [voice and piano], from The Joyce Book, no. 2. [text verified 1 time]
- by Brian Boydell (1917 - 2000), "Watching the needleboats at San Saba", 1936. [low voice and piano] [text not verified]
- by Robin Field (b. 1935), "I heard their young hearts crying", 1967 [tenor, oboe, and string quartet], from The sly reeds whisper [text not verified]
- by John Gruen (b. 1927), "Watching the needleboats at San Saba" [voice and piano] [text not verified]
- by Geert van Keulen (b. 1943), "Watching the needleboats at San Saba", 1943, published 1984, rev. 1984 [soprano, flute (alto flute and piccolo), clarinet (bass clarinet), violin, contrabass, harp, vibraphone (tam-tam), mandolin, and guitar], from Trieste, or Three Poems by James Joyce, no. 2, Amsterdam, Donemus [text not verified]
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , title 1: "En regardant les yoles à San Sabba", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , title 1: "Betrachtung der Ruderer vor San Sabba", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Barbara Miller
This text was added to the website: 2005-01-13
Line count: 8
Word count: 44