by James Stephens (1882 - 1950)
A woman is a branchy tree
Language: English
A woman is a branchy tree And man a singing wind, And from her branches carelessly He takes what he can find : Then wind and man go far away While winter comes with loneliness, With cold and rain and slow decay On woman and on tree till they Droop to the ground again and be A withered woman, a withered tree ; While wind and man woo undismayed Another tree, another maid.
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Text Authorship:
- by James Stephens (1882 - 1950), "Wind and tree", appears in The Hill of Vision, first published 1912, rev. 1926 [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 Leslie Mann (1923 - 1977), "A woman is a branchy tree", 1955 [ tenor and piano ], from Three songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Walter Byron Mourant (1910 - 1995), "A woman is a branchy tree" [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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Word count: 71