by William Blake (1757 - 1827)
As I walk'd forth one May morning
Language: English
Our translations: GER
As I walk'd forth one May morning To see the fields so pleasant and so gay, O! there did I spy a young maiden sweet, Among the violets that smell so sweet, smell so sweet, smell so sweet, Among the violets that smell so sweet.
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Text Authorship:
- by William Blake (1757 - 1827), no title, appears in An Island in the Moon, Chapter IX [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 Nicolas Flagello (b. 1928), "As I walked forth", 1964, published 1965 [high voice and piano], from Songs from William Blake's "An Island in the Moon", no. 1. [text not verified]
- by Hubert James Foss (1899 - 1953), "As I walked forth", published 1923 [unison chorus], London : Oxford University Press [text not verified]
- by Leo Smith (1881 - 1952), "As I walked forth", 1946. [high voice and piano] [text not verified]
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Bertram Kottmann) , title 1: "Als ich hinauszog des Morgens im Mai", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2009-05-24
Line count: 7
Word count: 45