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by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892)

It chanced the song that Enid sang was...
Language: English 
Our translations:  DUT FRI
[It chanced the song that Enid sang was one
Of Fortune and her wheel, and Enid sang:]1

'Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel and lower the proud;
Turn thy wild wheel through sunshine, storm, and cloud;
Thy wheel and thee we neither love nor hate.

'Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel with smile or frown;
With that wild wheel we go not up or down;
Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great.

'Smile and we smile, the lords of many lands;
Frown and we smile, the lords of our own hands;
For man is man and master of his fate.

'Turn, turn thy wheel above the staring crowd;
Thy wheel and thou are shadows in the cloud;
Thy wheel and thee we neither love nor hate.'

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Text Authorship:

  • by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892), no title, appears in Enid and Nimuë: The True and the False [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 Michael William Balfe (1808 - 1870), "Fortune and her wheel", published [BL 1865] [ voice and piano ], London : Boosey & Hawkes [sung text not yet checked]
  • by John G. Barnett (1802 - 1890), "The Song of Fortune", published [BL 1859] [ voice and piano ], London: Leader & Cock [sung text not yet checked]
  • by John Blockley (1800 - 1882), "Fortune and her wheel", <<1892 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by William Richardson Dempster (1809 - 1871), "Turn, fortune, turn", published [BL 1864] [ voice and piano ], London : the composer [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Ellen Dickson (1819 - 1878), as Dolores, "Turn, fortune, turn", published [1861] [ voice and piano ], London: Jefferys [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Sidney Homer (1864 - 1953), "Enid's song", published 1901 [ voice and piano ], from Eight Poems by Tennyson, NY : G. Schirmer [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Arwel Hughes (1909 - 1988), "Song of Enid", <<1972 [ SSA chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by John Pike Hullah (1812 - 1884), "Fortune and her wheel", published [BL 1860] [ voice and piano ], London : Addison, Hollier & Lucas [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Edward Lear (1812 - 1888), "Turn, fortune, turn", published c1860? [ voice and piano ], London : Cramer, Beale & Chappell [sung text not yet checked]
  • by George Alexander MacFarren (1813 - 1887), "Fortune and her wheel", <<1892 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Alexander Campbell MacKenzie, Sir (1847 - 1935), "Turn, fortune, turn", published [BL 1873] [ voice and piano ], London : Chappell & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
  • by William Henry Montgomery (1811? - 1886), "Turn fortune, turn thy wheel", <<1969 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • possibly by William Henry Richmond (flourished 1870), "Enid", published [BL 1871] [ voice and piano ], London: Weippert ; composer given as W. Richmond [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Alexander Campbell Rowland (1826 - 1896), "Turn, fortune, turn", published [BL 1861] [ voice and piano ], London : Addison, Hollier & Lucas [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Edward Silas (1827 - 1909), "Enid's Song", published 1880 [ voice and piano ], London : C. Kegan Paul ; in Songs from the published writings of Alfred Tennyson [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Elises Smith , "Enid", published [BL 1864] [ voice and piano ], London : Davison [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Albert Orlando Steed (1839 - ?), "Turn, fortune, turn", published 1861 [ voice and piano ], from Four songs, London : Jewell [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Christopher Urswick , "The wheel of fortune", published 1902 [ alto or baritone and piano ], from Two Songs, London: Novello [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Charles Wood (1866 - 1926), "Fortune and her wheel", c1886, published 1927 [ high voice and piano ], from Five Songs for High Voice, no. 3, London : Boosey & Hawkes [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Geart van der Meer) , copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRI Frisian (Geart van der Meer) , copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2010-04-21
Line count: 14
Word count: 127

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