by John Keats (1795 - 1821)
The sun, with his great eye
Language: English
The sun, with his great eye, Sees not so much as I ; And the moon, all silver, proud, Might as well be in a cloud. And the spring -- the spring ! I lead the life of a king ! Couch'd in the teeming grass, I spy each pretty lass. I look where no one dares, And I stare where no one stares, And when the night is nigh, Lambs bleat my lullaby.
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Text Authorship:
- by John Keats (1795 - 1821), "Daisy's song", appears in Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats, in Extracts from an Opera, first published 1848 [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 Cecil Burleigh (1885 - 1980), "Daisy's song", published 1917 [ low voice and piano ], from Seven songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by George Cory (b. 1920?), "Daisy's song", published 1947 [ low voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Scott Gendel (b. 1977), "Daisy's song", 2000 [ medium-high voice and piano ], from Keats Songs, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Eugene Hartzell (1932 - 2000), "Daisy's song", 1978 [ tenor and guitar ], also set in German, translation by Wolfgang Ploderer [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Basil Hugh Longmire (1902 - 1986), "Daisy's song", published 1939 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Bertram Luard-Selby (1853 - 1918), "The daisy's song", published 1896 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Morfydd Llwyn Owen (1891 - 1918), "Daisy's Song", 1911 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Kurt Schindler (1882 - 1935), "The daisy's song", op. 11 (Three songs) no. 1, published 1908 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frederick William Wadely (d. 1970), "Daisy's song", published 1919 [ SA chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-02-15
Line count: 12
Word count: 71