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Summer is gone with all its roses,
Its sun and perfumes and sweet flowers,
Its warm air and refreshing showers:
And even Autumn closes.
Yea, Autumn's chilly self is going,
And winter comes which is yet colder;
Each day the hoar-frost waxes bolder
And the last buds cease blowing.
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Authorship
- by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), "Bitter for sweet", appears in Goblin Market and other Poems, first published 1862 [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 John Chorbajian (b. 1936), "Bitter for sweet", published 1970. [mixed chorus a cappella] [ sung text not verified ]
- by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875 - 1912), "Summer is gone", published 1911. [SATB chorus a cappella] [ sung text not verified ]
- by Robert Hugill , "Bitter for sweet" [mezzo-soprano, viola, piano], from Quickening, no. 2. [ sung text verified 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Bertram Kottmann) , "Süße weicht Bitternis", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2008-07-17
Line count: 8
Word count: 49
Sommer und Rosen sind entschwunden, mit süßen, sonnentrunk'nen Düften, mit frischem Nass und warmen Lüften: gar Herbstes letzte Stunden. Selbst er empfindet Unbehagen, wenn Winter naht, des Frostes Meister, täglich erscheint der Rauhreif dreister, und letzte Knospen zagen.
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- Singable translation from English to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2008 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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- a text in English by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), "Bitter for sweet", appears in Goblin Market and other Poems, first published 1862
This text was added to the website: 2008-07-23
Line count: 8
Word count: 38