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by Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)

Round us the wild creatures, overhead...
Language: English 
Round us the wild creatures, overhead the trees, 
Underfoot the moss-tracks, life and love with these ! 
I to wear a fawn-skin, thou to dress in flowers : 
All the long lone Summer-day, that greenwood life of ours ! 

Rich-pavilioned, rather, still the world without, 
Inside gold-roofed silk-walled silence round about ! 
Queen it thou on purple, I, at watch and ward 
Couched beneath the columns, gaze, thy slave, love's guard ! 

So, for us no world ? Let throngs press thee to me ! 
Up and down amid men, heart by heart fare we ! 
Welcome squalid vesture, harsh voice, hateful face ! 
God is soul, souls I and thou : with souls should souls have place. 

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Text Authorship:

  • by Robert Browning (1812 - 1889), "The eagle", appears in Ferishtah's Fancies, no. 1, first published 1884 [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 Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (1868 - 1946), "The eagle", 1903, published 1905 [tenor and orchestra], from Lyrics from "Ferishtah's Fancies", no. 1. [
     text not verified 
    ]
  • by Alice Borton (fl. 1890), "That greenwood life of ours", c1884. [chorus and piano] [
     text not verified 
    ]
  • by Helen Archibald Clarke (fl. 1900), "Round us the wild creatures" [high voice and piano] [
     text not verified 
    ]
  • by Marshall Rutgers Kernochan (1880 - 1955), "Round us the wild creatures", published 1913 [medium voice and piano], from Two songs [
     text not verified 
    ]
  • by Fritz Krull , "Round us the wild creatures", 1908 [high voice and piano], from Three songs [
     text not verified 
    ]
  • by Staat , "Round us the wild creatures", published <<1940. [voice and piano] [
     text not verified 
    ]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2009-02-26
Line count: 12
Word count: 108

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