by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
The Ragged Wood
Language: English
O hurry where by water among the trees The delicate-stepping stag and his lady sigh, When they have but looked upon their images – Would none had ever loved but you and I! Or have you heard that sliding silver-shoed Pale silver-proud queen-woman of the sky, When the sun looked out of his golden hood? – O that none ever loved but you and I! O hurry to the ragged wood, for there I will drive all those lovers out and cry – O my share of the world, O yellow hair! No one has ever loved but you and I.
Text Authorship:
- by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), appears in In the Seven Woods, no. 11, first published 1904 [author's text not yet checked 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 Alun Hoddinott (1929 - 2008), "The Ragged Wood", op. 152, Heft 3 no. 4 (1994) [ soprano and piano ], from One Must Always Have Love, no. 4, confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
- by David Keberle , "The ragged wood", 1997 [ voice and piano ], from Three songs on the poetry of Yeats, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
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