by George Meredith (1828 - 1909)
Enter these enchanted woods
Language: English
Enter these enchanted woods, You who dare. Nothing harms beneath the leaves More than waves a swimmer cleaves. Toss your heart up with the lark, Foot at peace with mouse and worm, Fair you fare. Only at a dread of dark Quaver, and they quit their form: Thousand eyeballs under hoods Have you by the hair. Enter these enchanted woods, You who dare.
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Text Authorship:
- by George Meredith (1828 - 1909), no title, appears in Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth, in The Woods of Westermain, no. 1, first published 1883 [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 Ina Boyle (1889 - 1967), "Enter these enchanted woods", 1954 [ voice and piano ], from Two Songs of the Wood, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Dilys Elwyn-Edwards, née Roberts (b. 1918), "Enter these enchanted woods", <<1972 [ ST chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by David Vaughan Thomas (1873 - 1934), "Enter these enchanted woods", published 1923 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-01-13
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Word count: 63