by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
To suffer woes which hope thinks...
Language: English
To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy power which seems omnipotent; To love and bear; to hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great, and joyous, beautiful and free; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory.
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Text Authorship:
- by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822), no title, appears in Prometheus Unbound [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 Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958), "A song of victory" [ unison chorus and orchestra (or piano) ], from Six choral songs to be sung in time of war, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Ahmed E. Ismail
This text was added to the website: 2005-12-31
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