by Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)
This is the weather the cuckoo likes
Language: English
This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly; And the little brown nightingale bills his best, And they sit outside at "The Traveller's Rest", And maids come forth sprig-muslin drest, And citizens dream of the south and west, And so do I. This is the weather the shepherd shuns, And so do I; When beeches drip in browns and duns, And thresh and ply; And hill-hid tides throb, throe on throe, And meadow rivulets overflow, And drops on gate bars hang in a row, And rooks in families homeward go, And so do I.
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First published in Good Housekeeping, London, May 1922
Text Authorship:
- by Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928), "Weathers" [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 (Edward) Maurice Besly (1888 - 1945), "Weathers", published 1926 [ voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by James Brown , "Weathers" [ duet for alto and baritone with piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by James Henry Baseden Butt (b. 1929), "Weathers", published 1965 [ unison chorus or high voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Peter Charles Crossley-Holland (1916 - 2001), "The weather the cuckoo likes", published 1956 [ high voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gerald Finzi (1901 - 1956), "Weathers", c1920, note: unfinished [sung text not yet checked]
- by Roger Elwyn Fiske (b. 1910), "Weathers", published 1951 [ mezzo-soprano or baritone, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Norman Gilbert (b. 1912), "Weathers", published 1957 [ unison chorus, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Harold Walter Greenhill (1902 - ?), "A Song of Weathers", published 1929 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Michael (Dewar) Head (1900 - 1976), "Weathers", 1932, published 1933 [ soprano and piano ], from More Songs of the Countryside, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Derek Healey (b. 1936), "Weathers", op. 13 no. 5 (1961) [ soprano or tenor, piano ], from Five Thomas Hardy Songs, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rae Holmes (b. 1940), "Weathers", 1962 [ satb chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Imogen Clare Holst (1907 - 1984), "Weathers", 1926 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by John (Nicholson) Ireland (1879 - 1962), "Weathers", 1925, published 1925 [ voice and piano ], from Three Songs to Poems by Thomas Hardy, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by John Jeffreys (1927 - 2010), "This is the weather" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carl J. Kittleson (b. 1920), "Weathers" [ satb chorus a cappella ], from Three Poems of Thomas Hardy [sung text not yet checked]
- by Christopher Kaye Le Fleming (b. 1908), "Weathers", published 1963 [ soprano, tenor, satb chorus, orchestra ], from Six Country Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by William Lovelock (1899 - 1986), "Weathers", published 1958 [ 2-part chorus, piano? ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robin Humphrey Milford (1903 - 1959), "Weathers", published 1930 [ unison chorus and piano ], from Rain, Wind, and Sunshine [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (1848 - 1918), "Weathers", published <<1972 [ soprano, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Dorothy Pilling (1910 - 1998), "Weathers" [ voice and piano ], confirmed with a score [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Arthur John Pritchard , "Weathers", published 1968 [ satb chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Weathers", op. 655 (1965) [sung text not yet checked]
- by David E. Stone (b. 1922), "Weathers", published 1951 [ sa chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Eric Harding Thiman (1900 - 1975), "Weathers", published c1950 [ ssa chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alan Dales Thompson (b. 1901), "Weathers", published 1949 [ medium voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jack Allan Westrup (1904 - 1975), "Weathers", published 1941 [ satb chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Ramsden Williamson (1929 - 2015), "Weathers" [ baritone and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ramon Zupko (b. 1932), "Weathers" [ satb chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
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