by Ernest Christopher Dowson (1867 - 1900)
The garden of shadows
Language: English
Love heeds no more the sighing of the wind Against the perfect flowers: thy garden's close Is grown a wilderness, where none shall find One strayed, last petal of one last year's rose. O bright, bright hair! O mount like a ripe fruit! Can famine be so nigh to harvesting? Love, that was songful, with a broken lute In grass of graveyards goeth murmuring. Let the wind blow against the perfect flowers, And all thy garden change and glow with spring: Love is grown blind with no more count of hours Nor part in seed-tune nor in harvesting.
Text Authorship:
- by Ernest Christopher Dowson (1867 - 1900), "The garden of shadows", appears in Book of the Rhymers' Club, first published 1894 [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 Forsyth (1870 - 1941), "The garden of shadows", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ], NY : G. Schirmer [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2010-04-24
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Word count: 98