Goldbrown upon the sated flood (Joyce, set by (Lorne M. Betts, Herbert Norman Howells)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

by James Joyce (1882 - 1941)

Goldbrown upon the sated flood

Language: English

Available translation(s): FRE GER

Goldbrown upon the sated flood
The rockvine clusters lift and sway.
Vast wings above the lambent waters brood
Of sullen day.

A waste of waters ruthlessly
Sways and uplifts its weedy mane
Where brooding day stares down upon the sea
In dull disdain.

Uplift and sway, O golden vine,
Your clustered fruits to love's full flood,
Lambent and vast and ruthless as is thine
Incertitude!

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First published in Poetry, May 1917

Authorship

by James Joyce (1882 - 1941), "Flood", written 1915, appears in Pomes Penyeach, no. 8 [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 Lorne M. Betts (b. 1918), "Goldbrown upon the sated flood", 1952 [voice and piano], from Five Songs (1952) [
text not verified
]
by Herbert Norman Howells (1892 - 1983), "Flood", published 1933 [voice and piano], from The Joyce Book, no. 8. [
text verified 1 time
]

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Researcher for this text: Barbara Miller

This text was added to the website: 2005-01-13
Line count: 12
Word count: 65