by John Davidson (1857 - 1909)
The boat is chafing at our long delay
Language: English
The boat is chafing at our long delay, And we must leave too soon The spicy sea-pinks and the inborne spray, The tawny sands, the moon. Keep us, O Thetis, [in]1 our western flight! Watch from thy pearly throne Our vessel, plunging deeper into night To reach a land unknown.
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Text Authorship:
- by John Davidson (1857 - 1909), no title, from Plays, as part of "Scaramouch in Naxos", first published 1889 [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 Arnold Atkinson Cooke (1906 - 2005), "The boat song", 1956, published 1963 [ soprano, horn, and piano ], from Nocturnes, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (1890 - 1937), "The boat is chafing", 1920, published 1938 [ voice and piano ], from A Second Volume of Ten Songs, no. 2, London: Oxford University Press [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Anthony L. W. Scott (b. 1911), "The boat is chafing", 1961 [ TTB chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ronald Stevenson (b. 1928), "The boat is chafing", 1974 [ baritone and piano ], from Songs of Quest [sung text not yet checked]
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: 50