by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889)
Margaret, are you grieving
Language: English
to a young child Margaret, are you grieving, Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leaves, like the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Ah! as the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By & by, nor spare a sigh Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; And yet you will weep & know why. Now no matter, child, the name: Sorrow's springs are the same. Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed What heart heard of, ghost guessed: It is the blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for.
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Text Authorship:
- by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889), "Spring and Fall", first published 1918 [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 Aaron Alon , "Spring and Fall", 2003, first performed 2003 [ medium voice, cello, and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Vivian Fine (1913 - 2000), "Spring and Fall: to a young child ", 1988, first performed 1988 [ soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello ], from 5 Victorian Songs, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Steven R. Gerber (b. 1948), "Spring and Fall", 1986 [ high voice and piano ], from Four Elegiac Songs, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Timothy Hoekman , "To a young child", 1994, published 2009 [ soprano, mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Margarets, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Roger S. Keele (b. 1954), "Spring and Fall: To A Young Child", 2009 [ high voice and piano ], from Six Seasonal Songs for High Voice and Piano, no. 4, Dowling Music [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marjo Tal (1915 - 2006), "Spring and fall", 1980 [ voice and piano ], from Tendre et dangereux, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Stephen Wilkinson (b. 1919), "Spring and fall", subtitle: "To a young child" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2011-01-08
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Word count: 98