by Gordon Bottomley (1874 - 1948)
A mad maid's song
Language: English
The day had a sunless dawning, The lark forgot to sing -- Is this the lark that creeps in the grass With a trailing wounded wing? My tears with the rain are mingled: Of rain and tears I am fain, For I and all the other flowers Are sweetest after rain. The day has a sunless ending; The rain will never cease; The other flowers, weary and wrecked, Find sweetness in death's peace.
Text Authorship:
- by Gordon Bottomley (1874 - 1948), "A mad maid's song", appears in Poems of Thirty Years, first published 1925 [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 Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949), "A mad maid's song", op. 128 (Five songs) no. 5 (1938) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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