by Claudius Claudianus (c370 - c404)
Translation © by Howard Mumford Jones (1892 - 1980)
The lonely isle
Language: English  after the Latin
Deep in a distant bay, and deeply hidden [ ... ]
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Authorship:
- by Howard Mumford Jones (1892 - 1980), "The lonely isle", appears in The Romanesque Lyric: Studies in its Background and Development from Petronius to the Cambridge Songs 50-1050, first published 1928, copyright © [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Latin by Claudius Claudianus (c370 - c404) [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by John Woods Duke (1899 - 1984), "The lonely isle", 1968 [medium voice and piano], Recital Publ. [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
This text was added to the website: 2011-02-16
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Word count: 50