by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889)
Look at the stars! look, look up at the...
Language: English
Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies! O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there! Down in dim woods the diamond delves! the elves'-eyes! The grey lawns cold where gold, where quickgold lies! Wind-beat whitebeam! airy abeles set on a flare! Flake-doves sent floating forth at a farmyard scare! -- Ah well! it is all a purchase, all is a prize. Buy then! bid then! -- What? -- Prayer, patience, aims, vows. Look, look: a May-mess, like on orchard boughs! Look! March-bloom, like on mealed-with-yellow sallows! These are indeed the barn; withindoors house The shocks. This piece-bright paling shuts the spouse Christ home, Christ and his mother and all his hallows.
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Text Authorship:
- by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889), "The starlight night" [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 Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir (1891 - 1975), "Look at the stars", op. 116 no. 3, F. 36 no. 3, published 1970 [ SATB chorus, 2 flutes, 3 trumpets, 4 trombones ], from The World is Charged with the Grandeur of God, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Elaine Hugh-Jones (b. 1927), "The starlight night", 2000 [ voice and piano ], from Two Night Songs, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Russell Woollen (1923 - 1994), "The Starlit Night", 1959, first performed 1959 [ high voice and piano ], from Suite for High Voice, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2010-12-31
Line count: 14
Word count: 119