The year's at the spring | The year's at the spring

The year's at the spring

Language: English

Our translations: CAT GER ITA

The year's at the spring
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hill-side's dew-pearl'd;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in His heaven --
All's right with the world!

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Sometimes titled "Pippa's Song" in later editions.

Text Authorship:

by Robert Browning (1812 - 1889), no title, appears in Pippa Passes [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 Marion Alsop , "The year's at the spring" [ soprano and piano ], from Two Short Songs [sung text not yet checked]
by Ivor Algernon Atkins (1869 - 1953), "The year's at the spring", published 1924 [ high voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Frederic Ayres (1876 - 1926), "Spring song", published 1906 [ alto and piano ], from Three Songs for Contralto with Piano Accompaniment [sung text not yet checked]
by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (1868 - 1946), "Pippa Passes", published 1922 [ high voice or medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867 - 1944), "The year's at the spring", op. 44 (Three Browning Songs) no. 1, published 1900 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Arthur Henry Behrend (1853 - 1935), "All's right", published 1908 [ soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Jean Berger, né Arthur Schloßberg (1909 - 2002), "A song of seasons", published 1968 [ soprano, SATB chorus, melodica, percussion ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Kate Gilmore Black , "Pippa's Song", published 1922 [ high voice, piano ], from Three Songs with Piano Accompaniment [sung text not yet checked]
by William Blair (1793? - 1884), "The year's at the spring", published 1915 [ medium voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Alice M. Bode , "The year's at the spring", published 1908 [ high voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Mary Hannah (May) Brahe (1884 - 1956), "The year's at the spring", published 1915 [ voice and piano ], from Two songs [sung text not yet checked]
by Noble Cain (1896 - 1977), "The year's at the spring", published 1940 [ three-part women's chorus or SATB chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Mary Elizabeth Caldwell (1909 - 2003), "Year's at the spring", published 1964 [ unison chorus and organ or piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Esther May Carter , "The year's at the spring", published 1928 [ medium voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Julia Lois Caruthers (flourished 1940), "Pippa's spring song", published 1891 [ high voice, piano ], first appeared in Music, A Monthly Magazine, ed. by W.S.B. Mathews [sung text not yet checked]
by Ruth Kinney Clark (b. 1893), "The year's at the spring", published 1968 [ voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Henry Leland Clarke (1907 - 1992), "The year's at the spring", 1930 [ high voice and piano ], from Four Songs for Young Lady [sung text not yet checked]
by Alfred Redgrave Cripps (1882 - 1950), "The year's at the spring", published 1909 [ medium voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Natalie Burlin Curtis (1875 - 1921), "Song from Pippa Passes", published 1899 [ medium voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by J. Y. Dalhousie , "Pippa's Song", published 1904 [ voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Kington David , "The year's at the spring", from Oddments [sung text not yet checked]
by William Edmondstoune Duncan (1866 - 1920), "The year's at the spring", published 1919 [ voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Henry Kimball Hadley (1871 - 1937), "The year's at the spring", op. 44 no. 4, published 1909 [ voice and piano ], from Five songs, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Maria Herz (1878 - 1950), "Pippa passes", subtitle: "Pippa’s Lied", published 1910 [ voice and piano ], from Two Songs, no. 1, In: Stainer & Bell’s Modern Songs ; No.27, London : Stainer & Bell [sung text not yet checked]
by Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin (1862 - 1901), "The wedding morn" [sung text not yet checked]
by Morfydd Llwyn Owen (1891 - 1918), "Pippa's Song" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Teresa del Riego (c1876 - 1968), "All's right with the world", published 1906 [ medium voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Teresa del Riego (c1876 - 1968), "All's right with the world", published 1906? [ voice and piano ], from Album, no. 5, London ; New York : Chappell [sung text not yet checked]
by Clara Kathleen Rogers (1844 - 1931), "The year's at the spring", op. 10 (Six Songs) no. 3, published 1882 [ voice and piano ], Boston : Arthur P. Schmidt and Co. [sung text not yet checked]
by Clara Kathleen Rogers (1844 - 1931), "The year's at the spring", op. 27 no. 6, published 1893 [ voice and piano ], from Browning songs (First Series), no. 6, Boston : Arthur P. Schmidt and Co. [sung text not yet checked]
by Ned Rorem (1923 - 2022), "Pippa's song", from Six Songs for High Voice, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Arthur Somervell, Sir (1863 - 1937), "The year's at the spring", published 1923 [ voice and piano ], from A Broken Arc, no. 8 [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 35