Song | All suddenly the wind comes soft | All suddenly the wind comes soft

by Rupert Brooke (1887 - 1915)

All suddenly the wind comes soft

Language: English

All suddenly the wind comes soft,
  And Spring is here again;
And the hawthorn quickens with buds of green
  And my heart with buds of pain.

My heart all Winter lay so numb,
  The earth so dead and frore,
That I never thought the Spring would come,
  Or my heart wake any more.

But Winter's broken and earth has woken
  And the small birds cry again.
And the hawthorn hedge puts forth its buds,
  And my heart puts forth its pain.

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First published in Poetry Review, November 1912

Text Authorship:

by Rupert Brooke (1887 - 1915), "Song" [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 Dwight Anderson , "The hawthorn hedge", published <<1940 [sung text not yet checked]
by Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (1890 - 1937), "All suddenly" [ voice and piano ], from Five Songs of Rupert Brooke, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
by Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (1890 - 1937), "Heart's pain", 1920, published 1985 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by John (Nicholson) Ireland (1879 - 1962), "Spring sorrow", 1918, published 1918 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Rex Le Lacheur , "All suddenly the wind comes soft", published 1941 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by George Norman Peterkin (1886 - 1982), "All suddenly the wind comes soft", published <<1940 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Humphrey Procter-Gregg (1895 - 1980), "All suddenly the wind comes soft " [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "All Suddenly The Wind Comes Soft", op. 585 (1961) [sung text not yet checked]
by S. J. Rowton , "Spring song", published <<1940 [sung text not yet checked]
by Freda Mary Swain (1902 - 1985), "Spring sorrow", 1942 [ mezzo-soprano or baritone and piano ensemble ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Marjo Tal (1915 - 2006), "Song", 1978, from After, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Muriel Thomas , "The buds in spring", published 1961 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this page: Ted Perry

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