by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!...
Language: English
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks! You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once That make ingrateful man!
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- by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in King Lear, Act III, Scene 2 [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 John Eaton (1935 - 2015), "Lear on the Heath" [ voice and chamber orchestra ], from Songs of Desperation and Comfort, no. 3 [ sung text checked 1 time]
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- FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo) , no title
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- POL Polish (Polski) (Józef Paszkowski) , no title
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