by Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon (1886 - 1967)
Dream‑Forest
Language: English
Where sunshine flecks the green, Through towering woods my way Goes winding all the day. Scant are the flowers that bloom Beneath the bosky screen And cage of golden gloom. Few are the birds that call, Shrill-voiced and seldom seen. Where silence masters all, And light my footsteps fall, The whispering runnels only With blazing noon confer; And comes no breeze to stir The tangled thickets lonely.
Text Authorship:
- by Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon (1886 - 1967), "Dream-Forest", appears in Morning-Glory, first published 1916 [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 Adrian Beaumont (b. 1937), "Dream-Forest", first performed 1972 [ soprano and piano ], from The Heart's Journey [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2008-10-19
Line count: 14
Word count: 67