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by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936)

Yonder see the morning blink
Language: English 
Yonder see the morning blink:
  The sun is up, and up must I,
To wash and dress and eat and drink
And look at things and talk and think
  And work, and God knows why.
 
Oh often have I washed and dressed
  And what's to show for all my pain?
Let me lie abed and rest:
Ten thousand times I've done my best
  And all's to do again.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936), no title, appears in Last Poems, no. 11, first published 1922 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Benjamin Burrows (1891 - 1966), "Yonder see", 1927, published 1928 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Keith Douglas , "Yonder see the morning blink", <<1943 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Sergius Kagen (1909 - 1964), "Yonder see the morning blink", <<1964 [ voice and piano ], from A Song Cycle [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Leslie Russell , "Yonder see the morning blink", 1973 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], from The Ludlow Cycle [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Freda Mary Swain (1902 - 1985), "Yonder see the morning blink", 1929 [ baritone and piano ensemble ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by John Ramsden Williamson (1929 - 2015), "Yonder see the morning blink " [ baritone and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2008-08-19
Line count: 10
Word count: 68

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