by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
The wind blows out of the gates of the...
Language: English
The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely of heart is withered away. While the faeries dance in a place apart, Shaking their milk-white feet in a ring, Tossing their milk-white arms in the air For they hear the wind laugh and murmur and sing Of a land where even the old are fair, And even the wise are merry of tongue But I heard a reed of Coolaney say, When the wind has laughed and murmured and sung The lonely of heart is withered away
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Text Authorship:
- by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), no title, appears in The Land of Heart's Desire, first published 1894, revised 1903 [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 Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert (1868 - 1928), "Faery song", published 1905 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (1890 - 1937), "Song from The Land of Heart's Desire", c1921 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Havelock Nelson (1917 - 1996), "The lonely of heart", published 1968 [ SSA chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Martin Edward Fallas Shaw (1875 - 1958), "The Land of Heart's Desire", published 1917 [ voice and piano (or oboe and strings) ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-01-17
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