by William Sharp (1855 - 1905)
A crystal forest
Language: English
The air is blue and keen and cold,
With snow the roads and fields are white
But here the forest's clothed with light
And in a shining sheath enrolled.
Each branch, each twig, each blade of grass,
Seems clad miraculously with glass:
Above the ice-bound streamlet bends
Each frozen fern with crystal ends.
Text Authorship:
- by William Sharp (1855 - 1905), "A crystal forest", appears in Poems, first published 1912 [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 Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949), "A crystal forest", op. 68 (Twenty-Five Songs in Five Sets of Five Each: Set II) no. 5 (1926) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2008-08-17
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Word count: 53