by William Ernest Henley (1849 - 1903)
Your feet as glad
Language: English
Your feet as glad And light as a dove's homing wings, you came -- Came with your sweets to fill my hands, My sense with your perfume. We closed with lips Grown weary and fain with longing from afar, The while your grave, enamoured eyes Drank down the dream in mine. Till the great need So lovely and so instant grew, it seemed The embodied Spirit of the Spring Hung at me, heart on heart.
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Text Authorship:
- by William Ernest Henley (1849 - 1903), no title, appears in Hawthorn and Lavender with Other Verses, in Hawthorn and Lavender, no. 28, first published 1901 [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 Charles Willeby (1865 - 1955), "Your feet as glad and light", published <<1940, from Hawthorn and Lavender [text not verified]
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Word count: 74