by William Blake (1757 - 1827)
I love the jocund dance
Language: English
I love the [jocund]1 dance, The softly breathing song, Where innocent eyes do glance, [And]2 where lisps the maiden's tongue. I love the laughing vale, I love the echoing [hills]3, Where mirth does never fail, And the jolly swain laughs his fill. I love the pleasant cot, I love the innocent bow'r, Where white and brown is our lot, Or fruit in the midday hour. I love the oaken seat, Beneath the oaken tree, Where all the [old]2 villagers meet, And laugh [our]4 sports to see. I love our neighbors all, But Kitty, I [better love thee]5; And love them [I ever]6 shall; But thou art all to me.
About the headline (FAQ)
View original text (without footnotes)1 Mitchell: "merry"
2 not set by Mitchell.
3 Mitchell: "hill"
4 Mitchell: "my"
5 Mitchell: "love thee more"
6 Mitchell: "ever I"
Authorship
- by William Blake (1757 - 1827), "Song" [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 Edgar Leslie Bainton (1880 - 1956), "I love the jocund dance", published c1913 [SATB chorus a cappella], London : Stainer & Bell [text not verified]
- by A. (Alfred or Arthur?) Herbert Brewer (1865 - 1928), "The jocund dance", published c1924 [2-part chorus with piano accompaniment], London : E. Ashdown ; in Edwin Ashdown's Series of Vocal Duets for Class Singing, 2nd series, no. 98 [text not verified]
- by Dudley Buck (1839 - 1909), "A song", published 1891 [vocal trio for female voices], London : Novello, Ewar & Co. [text not verified]
- by Edwin James Nairn Carr (b. 1926), "The jocund dance", 1952 [2-part children's chorus and small orchestra, harp, and piano], from A Blake Cantata, no. 3. [text not verified]
- by Frederick Corder (1852 - 1932), "I love the jocund dance", published 1889 [4-part chorus], partsong [text not verified]
- by (Henry) Walford Davies, Sir (1869 - 1941), "I love the jocund dance", op. 18 (Six Songs) no. 4, published 1905 [voice and piano], London : Sidney Riordan [text not verified]
- by Hilda M. Grieveson , "I love the jocund dance", published 1926 [unison chorus and piano], London, H. F. W. Deane & Sons [text not verified]
- by Alfred Matthew Hale (1875 - 1960), "I love the jocund dance", op. 16 no. 9, published 1910 [voice and piano], from Twelve Songs, no. 9, London : A. Lengnick [text not verified]
- by William Henry Harris, Sir (1883 - 1973), "I love the jocund dance", published c1966 [unison chorus], London, Novello [text not verified]
- by Julius Allan Greenway Harrison (1885 - 1963), "I love the jocund dance", published c1929 [SSA chorus a cappella], London : Hawkes & Son [text not verified]
- by Arthur Hinton (1869 - 1941), "I love the jocund dance", op. 19 no. 4, published 1903? [medium voice and piano], from Four Songs from William Blake, no. 4, London : Breitkopf & Härtel [text not verified]
- by Daniel Jenkyn Jones (b. 1912), "I love the jocund dance", 1977, first performed 1977 [SATB chorus and orchestra], from Hear the Voice of the Ancient Bard, no. 1. [text not verified]
- by Daniel Jenkyn Jones (b. 1912), "I love the jocund dance", 1969 [SATB chorus and piano], from Tryptych, no. 3. [text not verified]
- by James Lyon (1872 - 1949), "I love the jocund dance", op. 68 no. 3, published c1920 [SSAA chorus a cappella], London : Stainer & Bell [text not verified]
- by John Mitchell (b. 1941), "I love the merry dance", op. 1 no. 7 (1964), rev. 1977, from Seven Songs from William Blake, no. 7. [text verified 1 time]
- by Oskar Morawetz (b. 1917), "I love the jocund dance", 1949, published 1953 [high voice and piano], Toronto : Gordon V. Thompson [text not verified]
- by Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953), "The jocund dance", op. 18 (Six songs) no. 3 (1913), published 1914 [baritone or tenor and piano], London : Elkin & Co. [text not verified]
- by Alec Rowley (1892 - 1958), "The jocund dance", published 1953 [mixed chorus and accompaniment], from Song in Maytime, no. 5, London : Novello [text not verified]
- by Leo Smith (1881 - 1952), "I love the jocund dance", published c1912 [high voice or medium voice and piano], from Five songs, no. 3, Winnipeg and Toronto : Whaley, Royce & Co. [text not verified]
- by Robert Barton Smith (b. 1922), "I love the jocund dance", 1974, first performed 1975 [TTBB chorus and piano], from A Rhos Orpheus Suite, no. 4. [text not verified]
- by Timothy Mather Spelman (1891 - 1970), "I love the jocund dance", published c1938 [SSA chorus and piano], NY : Galaxy Music Corp. [text not verified]
- by Christopher Steel (b. 1939), "I love the jocund dance", 1971 [baritone and piano], from Piping Down the Valleys Wild, no. 4. [text not verified]
- by Margaret Ada Sutherland (1897 - 1984), "The jocund dance", c1950, published c1973 [voice and piano], from Four Blake Songs, no. 4, Sydney : J. Albert & Sons (Belwin-Mills) [text not verified]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:01:21
Line count: 20
Word count: 109