by William Ernest Henley (1849 - 1903)
The wind on the wold
Language: English
The wind on the wold,
With sea-scents and sea-dreams attended,
Is wine!
The air is as gold
In elixir -- it takes so the splendid
Sunshine!
O, the larks in the blue!
How the song of them glitters, and glances,
And gleams!
The old music sounds new --
And it's O, the wild Spring, and his chances
And dreams!
There's a lift in the blood --
O, this gracious, and thirsting, and aching
Unrest!
All life's at the bud,
And my heart, full of April, is breaking
My breast.
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Text Authorship:
- by William Ernest Henley (1849 - 1903), no title, appears in Hawthorn and Lavender with Other Verses, in Hawthorn and Lavender, no. 9, first published 1901 [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 Charles Albert Lidgey (d. 1924), "The wind on the wold", published 1909 [voice and piano], from A Song of Life [text not verified]
- by Ernest Walker (1870 - 1949), "The wind on the wold", published 1951. [high voice and piano] [text not verified]
- by (James) Healey Willan (1880 - 1968), "The wind on the wold", 1914. [voice and piano] [text not verified]
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This text was added to the website: 2008-01-19
Line count: 18
Word count: 86